Article 6DB2C [$] Flags for fchmodat()

[$] Flags for fchmodat()

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The fchmodat()system call on Linux hides a little secret: it does not actually implementall of the functionality that the man page claims (and that POSIXcalls for). As a result, C libraries have to do a bit of a complicatedworkaround to provide the API that applications expect. That situationlooks likely to change with the 6.6 kernel, though, as the result of this patchseries posted by Alexey Gladkov.
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