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[PATCH] fix descriptions for AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: [PATCH] fix descriptions for AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:46:23 +0000
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On 10/03/2022 07:44, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Mär 09 2022, Paul Eggert wrote:

I audited gnulib's uses of fstatat and found one fishy one that doesn't
use AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, namely, in fts.c where the follow-symlink branch uses
'stat' whereas the no-follow-symlink branch uses fstatat without
AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT. I installed the first patch to cause it be consistent in
using AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, which is also consistent with what glibc does

??? In glibc, stat is the same as fstatat(,,,0).

Indeed. It looks like the man page for fstatat is out of date.
After looking at the kernel code, it seems that:
  fstatat() did _not_ imply AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT from 2.6.38 -> 4.11
    I'm not sure it even honored the AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag before 4.11
  fstatat() did imply AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT since 4.11

The attached patch clarifies this is the fstatat and statx man pages.

sorry for the confusion,
Pádraig

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