History log of /bionic/libc/arch-arm64/syscalls/___fgetxattr.S
Revision Date Author Comments
c92f9f8069f567ad2c2557e2ef56e13de4bf8713 31-May-2015 Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> libc: Add O_PATH support for fgetxattr / fsetxattr

Support O_PATH file descriptors when handling fgetxattr and fsetxattr.
This avoids requiring file read access to pull extended attributes.

This is needed to support O_PATH file descriptors when calling
SELinux's fgetfilecon() call. In particular, this allows the querying
and setting of SELinux file context by using something like the following
code:

int dirfd = open("/path/to/dir", O_DIRECTORY);
int fd = openat(dirfd, "file", O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW);
char *context;
fgetfilecon(fd, &context);

This change was motivated by a comment in
https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/152680/1/toys/posix/ls.c

(cherrypicked from commit 2825f10b7f61558c264231a536cf3affc0d84204)

Change-Id: Ic0cdf9f9dd0e35a63b44a4c4a08400020041eddf
2825f10b7f61558c264231a536cf3affc0d84204 31-May-2015 Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> libc: Add O_PATH support for fgetxattr / fsetxattr

Support O_PATH file descriptors when handling fgetxattr and fsetxattr.
This avoids requiring file read access to pull extended attributes.

This is needed to support O_PATH file descriptors when calling
SELinux's fgetfilecon() call. In particular, this allows the querying
and setting of SELinux file context by using something like the following
code:

int dirfd = open("/path/to/dir", O_DIRECTORY);
int fd = openat(dirfd, "file", O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW);
char *context;
fgetfilecon(fd, &context);

This change was motivated by a comment in
https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/152680/1/toys/posix/ls.c

Change-Id: Ic0cdf9f9dd0e35a63b44a4c4a08400020041eddf