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Authored by kib on Mon, Jan 6, 11:03 AM.
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There is no reason to disallow creating the file opened for path.
More, it might be a useful feature together with O_EXCL.

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kib requested review of this revision.Mon, Jan 6, 11:03 AM

At least tests/sys/file/path_test.c:path_io will need to be updated.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mon, Jan 6, 2:07 PM
This revision now requires review to proceed.Mon, Jan 6, 11:41 PM
markj added inline comments.
tests/sys/file/path_test.c
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Just for good measure, I'd verify that the descriptor really is an O_PATH descriptor. For example, read(pathfd) should fail.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Tue, Jan 7, 2:10 AM
kib marked an inline comment as done.

Check that O_PATH|O_CREAT returns O_PATH-kind of fd.

This revision now requires review to proceed.Tue, Jan 7, 2:34 AM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Tue, Jan 7, 2:36 AM