From c04030e16dbea2f7581f82cc6688695927f6ac5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:04:21 -0800 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/s390') 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: llgtr %r3,%r3 # const char * lgfr %r4,%r4 # int llgtr %r5,%r5 # const char * + lgfr %r6,%r6 # int jg sys_linkat .globl sys_symlinkat_wrapper -- cgit v1.2.3