Re: [PATCH man-pages 3/3] open.2: describe O_BENEATH flag

On 03/11/2014 12:48, David Drysdale wrote:

+.I pathname
+is beneath the current working directory (for
+.BR open (2))
+or the
+.I dirfd
+(for
+.BR openat (2)).
+If the
+.I pathname
+is absolute or contains a path component of "..", the
+.BR open ()
+fails with the error
+.BR EACCES.
+This occurs even if ".." path component would not actually
+escape the original directory; for example, a
+.I pathname
+of "subdir/../filename" would be rejected.
+Path components that are symbolic links to absolute paths, or that are
+relative paths containing a ".." component, will also cause the
+.BR open ()
+operation to fail with the error
+.BR EACCES.

I wonder if EPERM is more appropriate than EACCES.

Apart from this, the patches look fine.

Paolo