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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2006-02-24 16:04:21 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-24 17:31:39 -0500
commitc04030e16dbea2f7581f82cc6688695927f6ac5b (patch)
tree7ff5cd2494a133f1bf571f7af02e656bb01d124f /arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S
parentee713059d4922e4ee17700496d9eb3b95b1ab836 (diff)
[PATCH] flags parameter for linkat
I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name. Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does. Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application might want this behavior. We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior. For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new behavior could be invoked. I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the syscall API? Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S')
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diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S
index 615964cca15f..50e80138e7ad 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S
@@ -1552,6 +1552,7 @@ sys_linkat_wrapper:
1552 llgtr %r3,%r3 # const char * 1552 llgtr %r3,%r3 # const char *
1553 lgfr %r4,%r4 # int 1553 lgfr %r4,%r4 # int
1554 llgtr %r5,%r5 # const char * 1554 llgtr %r5,%r5 # const char *
1555 lgfr %r6,%r6 # int
1555 jg sys_linkat 1556 jg sys_linkat
1556 1557
1557 .globl sys_symlinkat_wrapper 1558 .globl sys_symlinkat_wrapper