Re: new ...at() flag: AT_NO_JUMPS

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 09:52:37PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 09:38:22PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

quoted

It sounds more like AT_NO_ESCAPE ... or AT_BELOW, or something.

I considered AT_ROACH_MOTEL at one point...  Another interesting
question is whether EXDEV would've been better than ELOOP.
Opinions?

In support of my homeland, I propose AT_HOTEL_CALIFORNIA.

How about EXDEV for crossing a mountpoint and ELOOP for absolute
symlinks or invalid ..?  (Is there a technical reason why the same AT_
flag should trigger both cases?)

You do realize that mount --bind can do everything absolute symlinks could,
right?  And absolute symlinks most likely do lead to (or at least through)
a different fs...