Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:01:48 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Purpose of O_EXEC? Message-ID: <fsr1su$q8n$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Hi,
What is the purpose of O_EXEC ("open file for execution") flag to
open(2)? Just a hint to the VM system on how to cache the file pages or
is there something else that makes it different from O_RDONLY?
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