[man-pages/f19] Documented O_PATH flag on the open(2) man page

Mon Jul 22 10:43:38 UTC 2013

commit b4ca94101f3cf9cff6b40c1eba696b790e9c9e03
Author: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Jul 22 12:42:50 2013 +0200

    Documented O_PATH flag on the open(2) man page
    
    - resolves: #885740

 man-pages-3.52-open.patch |  143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 man-pages.spec            |    9 +++-
 2 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---

diff --git a/man-pages-3.52-open.patch b/man-pages-3.52-open.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ecc14f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man-pages-3.52-open.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+diff -ur man-pages-3.52.orig/man2/open.2 man-pages-3.52/man2/open.2
+--- man-pages-3.52.orig/man2/open.2	2013-07-04 12:54:00.000000000 +0200
++++ man-pages-3.52/man2/open.2	2013-07-22 10:12:51.000000000 +0200
+@@ -47,9 +47,8 @@
+ .\" FIXME . Apr 08: The next POSIX revision has O_EXEC, O_SEARCH, and
+ .\" O_TTYINIT.  Eventually these may need to be documented.  --mtk
+ .\" FIXME Linux 2.6.33 has O_DSYNC, and a hidden __O_SYNC.
+-.\" FIXME: Linux 2.6.39 added O_PATH
+ .\"
+-.TH OPEN 2 2013-02-18 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
++.TH OPEN 2 2013-07-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+ .SH NAME
+ open, creat \- open and possibly create a file or device
+ .SH SYNOPSIS
+@@ -316,9 +315,7 @@
+ avoid denial-of-service problems if
+ .BR opendir (3)
+ is called on a
+-FIFO or tape device, but should not be used outside of the
+-implementation of
+-.BR opendir (3).
++FIFO or tape device.
+ .TP
+ .B O_EXCL
+ Ensure that this call creates the file:
+@@ -424,6 +421,9 @@
+ This is a FreeBSD extension, which was added to Linux in version 2.1.126.
+ Symbolic links in earlier components of the pathname will still be
+ followed.
++See also
++.BR O_NOPATH
++below.
+ .\" The headers from glibc 2.0.100 and later include a
+ .\" definition of this flag; \fIkernels before 2.1.126 will ignore it if
+ .\" used\fP.
+@@ -441,6 +441,96 @@
+ in conjunction with mandatory file locks and with file leases, see
+ .BR fcntl (2).
+ .TP
++.BR O_PATH " (since Linux 2.6.39)"
++.\" commit 1abf0c718f15a56a0a435588d1b104c7a37dc9bd
++.\" commit 326be7b484843988afe57566b627fb7a70beac56
++.\" commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d
++.\"
++.\" http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2790/focus=3496
++.\"	Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH
++.\"	Newsgroups: gmane.linux.man, gmane.linux.kernel
++.\"
++Obtain a file descriptor that can be used for two purposes:
++to indicate a location in the file-system tree and
++to perform operations that act purely at the file descriptor level.
++The file itself is not opened, and other file operations (e.g.,
++.BR read (2),
++.BR write (2),
++.BR fchmod (2),
++.BR fchown (2),
++.BR fgetxattr (2))
++fail with the error
++.BR EBADF .
++
++The following operations
++.I can
++be performed on the resulting file descriptor:
++.RS
++.IP * 3
++.BR close (2);
++.BR fchdir (2)
++(since Linux 3.5);
++.\" commit 332a2e1244bd08b9e3ecd378028513396a004a24
++.BR fstat (2)
++(since Linux 3.6).
++.\" fstat(): commit 55815f70147dcfa3ead5738fd56d3574e2e3c1c2
++.IP *
++Duplicating the file descriptor
++.RB ( dup (2),
++.BR fcntl (2)
++.BR F_DUPFD ,
++etc.).
++.IP *
++Getting and setting file descriptor flags
++.RB ( fcntl (2)
++.BR F_GETFD
++and
++.BR F_SETFD ).
++.IP *
++Retrieving open file status flags using the
++.BR fcntl (2)
++.BR F_GETFL
++operation: the returned flags will include the bit
++.BR O_PATH .
++
++.IP *
++Passing the file descriptor as the
++.IR dirfd
++argument of
++.BR openat (2)
++and the other "*at()" system calls.
++.IP *
++Passing the file descriptor to another process via a UNIX domain socket
++(see
++.BR SCM_RIGHTS
++in
++.BR unix (7)).
++.RE
++.IP
++When
++.B O_PATH
++is specified in
++.IR flags ,
++flag bits other than
++.BR O_DIRECTORY
++and
++.BR O_NOFOLLOW
++are ignored.
++
++If the
++.BR O_NOFOLLOW
++flag is also specified,
++then the call returns a file descriptor referring to the symbolic link.
++This file descriptor can be used as the
++.I dirfd
++argument in calls to
++.BR fchownat (2),
++.BR fstatat (2),
++.BR linkat (2),
++and
++.BR readlinkat (2)
++with an empty pathname to have the calls operate on the symbolic link.
++.TP
+ .B O_SYNC
+ The file is opened for synchronous I/O.
+ Any
+@@ -631,8 +721,9 @@
+ The
+ .BR O_DIRECTORY ,
+ .BR O_NOATIME ,
++.BR O_NOFOLLOW ,
+ and
+-.B O_NOFOLLOW
++.BR O_PATH
+ flags are Linux-specific, and one may need to define
+ .B _GNU_SOURCE
+ (before including
diff --git a/man-pages.spec b/man-pages.spec
index 68d52b5..eb9a8bf 100644
--- a/man-pages.spec
+++ b/man-pages.spec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Summary: Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project
 Name: man-pages
 Version: 3.51
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 License: GPL+ and GPLv2+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
 Group: Documentation
 URL: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ Patch21: man-pages-3.42-close.patch
 Patch22: man-pages-3.42-connect.patch
 # resolves: #771540
 Patch23: man-pages-3.43-tcp-congestion.patch
+# resolves: #885740
+Patch24: man-pages-3.52-open.patch
 
 
 Autoreq: false
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ Documentation Project (LDP).
 %patch21 -p1
 %patch22 -p1
 %patch23 -p1
+%patch24 -p1
 
 ## Remove man pages we are not going to use ##
 
@@ -120,6 +123,10 @@ cd ..
 %lang(en) %{_mandir}/en/man*/*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jul 22 2013 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 3.51-2
+- resolves: #885740
+  documented O_PATH flag on the open(2) man page
+
 * Tue Apr 23 2013 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 3.51-1
 - resolves: #921911
   updated to 3.51
