On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:15:49PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
Hi,
I was asked if we can add this patch to our kernel in Fedora.
It's for ability to open a directory with execute permission but without read permission.
Michal
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Michal, can you ask the Fedora Linux kernel people to backport this patch, please (this is going to be needed by both ksh93 and KDE4)?
Josh
It's already in 3.4.5, which we pushed to F16 and F17 yesterday.
commit 881aa809b005753a64fe9409c1d229912cc925ce Author: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Date: Sat Jul 7 10:17:00 2012 -0700
vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for 'fchdir()'
commit 332a2e1244bd08b9e3ecd378028513396a004a24 upstream.
[jwboyer@zod linux-2.6]$ git describe --contains 881aa809b005753a64fe9409c1d229912cc925ce v3.4.5~69 [jwboyer@zod linux-2.6]$
josh