Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2019 12:03:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] fs: Add support for an O_MAYEXEC flag on sys_open() |
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The fact that open and openat didn't vet unknown flags is really a bug. > > Too late to fix it now, of course, and as Aleksa points out, we've > worked around that in the past. Now though, we have a new openat2 > syscall on the horizon. There's little need to continue these sorts of > hacks. > > New open flags really have no place in the old syscalls, IMO.
Agree here. It's unfortunate but a reality and Linus will reject any such changes which break existing userspace.
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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