On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Mouse wrote: > I find myself wanting something I'm tentatively calling O_NOACCESS, > which is basically "open for neither read nor write". (I want this > mostly so I can open a --x directory for fchdir() purposes.) > > Looking at sys_open(), I see that one of the first checks it does is > > if ((flags & (FREAD | FWRITE)) == 0) > return (EINVAL); > > I've tried what I think is the minial change: removing those lines, > defining O_NOACCESS as 3, and making FFLAGS and OFLAGS correspondingly > more complex. It works, superficially.
Why not use O_DIRECTORY (which is part of -current) and add that to flags?
