Re: coreutils patch for files that are writeable but not readable

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> I suppose you've read some of the discussions of the O_NOACCESS open flag.
> What we want is something like that.

No, never heard of O_NOACCESS.  But that's what I want, yes.

> Do you know of a way to do it that's *not* portable?

Sorry, no.  I wouldn't be surprised if you could do it with GNU/Hurd
or Solaris, both of which let you do fairly funky things with
directories (e.g., open a file whose name is relative to another
directory that you have the file descriptor to), but I don't know how
to do it myself.