Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]

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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@...>

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]

Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 8:08 am

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:01:35PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
quoted text> > with a lot of things, starting with "why utimes(2) has weaker requirements
> > with NULL argument", but we are far too late to fix that.
> 
> To be fair, having a writable file descriptor only lets you change the
> mtime to "now", and having a readable file descriptor only lets you
> change the atime to "now".
> 
> Changing the times _in general_ can be seen as over-reaching those
> capabilities and arguably justifies more strict checks.

Which is what all questions about writability apply only to NULL case
anyway...
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[PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- version 2, Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 16, 4:31 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 16, 12:59 pm)

[PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 30, 11:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Tue Jun 3, 7:13 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:52 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 7:22 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Tue Jun 3, 8:16 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 9:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:27 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Jamie Lokier, (Tue Jun 3, 7:30 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:39 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 7:49 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Jamie Lokier, (Tue Jun 3, 8:01 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 8:08 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Jamie Lokier, (Tue Jun 3, 8:10 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 7:58 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 12:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 30, 2:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Andrew Morton, (Fri May 30, 4:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Sat May 31, 1:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 30, 3:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 4:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Sat May 31, 1:28 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 3:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Matthew Wilcox, (Fri May 30, 3:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 4:08 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Michael Kerrisk, (Sat May 17, 3:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Miklos Szeredi, (Mon May 19, 5:50 am)

Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Michael Kerrisk, (Mon May 19, 8:24 am)

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Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Miklos Szeredi, (Mon May 19, 6:12 am)

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