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| author | Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> | 2025-06-19 04:34:30 +1000 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-06-19 02:45:19 +0200 |
| commit | 99c9623cee2a0fdfcadeb571cb9376b32d23f216 (patch) | |
| tree | d39e1d044b03ded949cfe056b185639b2f50d847 | |
| parent | 86654b987c6f8fdf78902a0c57b2245c180781ba (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-99c9623cee2a0fdfcadeb571cb9376b32d23f216.tar.gz | |
man/man2/chmod.2: Document fchmodat(AT_EMPTY_PATH)
The documentation and behaviour is indentical to the equivalent flag for
fchownat(2).
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Message-ID: <20250619-fchmod-empty-path-v1-1-feff2c63abe4@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man2/chmod.2 | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2/chmod.2 b/man/man2/chmod.2 index 3075894815..671e256ba5 100644 --- a/man/man2/chmod.2 +++ b/man/man2/chmod.2 @@ -190,7 +190,30 @@ is absolute, then is ignored. .P .I flags -can either be 0, or include the following flag: +can either be 0, or include the following flags: +.TP +.BR AT_EMPTY_PATH " (since Linux 6.6)" +.\" commit 5daeb41a6fc9d0d81cb2291884b7410e062d8fa1 +If +.I path +is an empty string, operate on the file referred to by +.I dirfd +(which may have been obtained using the +.BR open (2) +.B O_PATH +flag). +In this case, +.I dirfd +can refer to any type of file, not just a directory. +If +.I dirfd +is +.BR AT_FDCWD , +the call operates on the current working directory. +This flag is Linux-specific; define +.B _GNU_SOURCE +.\" Before glibc 2.16, defining _ATFILE_SOURCE sufficed +to obtain its definition. .TP .B AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW If |