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Re: [PATCH] Linux: Work around kernel bugs in chmod on /proc/self/fd paths

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:47:11 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux: Work around kernel bugs in chmod on /proc/self/fd paths
References: <87sgjfd04p.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>

* Florian Weimer:

> It appears that the ability to change symbolic link modes through such
> paths is unintended.  On several file systems, the operation fails with
> EOPNOTSUPP, even though the symbolic link permissions are updated.
> The expected behavior is a failure to update the permissions, without
> file system changes.

Does somebody want to review the test part of this patch?

  <https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2020-02/msg00534.html>

Thanks,
Florian

References:
- [PATCH] Linux: Work around kernel bugs in chmod on /proc/self/fd paths
  - From: Florian Weimer

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