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Al Viro wrote:
> Like hell. At the very least you want it to be opened for write.
> And even that is dubious, since "process has write access to file"
> is not quite the same thing as "somebody had given the process a
> descriptor opened for write".
But the real permissions tests are performed in notify_change. I think
all this is consistent with how, for instance, fchmod works. The
additional tests in fchmod which aren't here (IS_RDONLY and IS_APPEND)
would also apply to the case where a file name is given. So, either the
code was inconsistent already are these tests are really not needed.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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