glibc/SOURCES/glibc-RHEL-50546-2.patch

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commit 941157dbcdf1c410960bde991206bfb6d9bb292f
Author: Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jun 4 13:08:54 2025 +0200
manual: Document faccessat
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi
index 28d38f23fc58c51f..17c15b54037e719d 100644
--- a/manual/filesys.texi
+++ b/manual/filesys.texi
@@ -3069,6 +3069,29 @@ Flag meaning test for execute/search permission.
Flag meaning test for existence of the file.
@end deftypevr
+@deftypefun int faccessat (int @var{filedes}, const char *@var{filename}, int @var{how}, int @var{flags})
+@standards{POSIX.1-2008, unistd.h}
+@comment Unaudited and therefore marked AC-Unsafe and AS-Unsafe by default
+@safety{@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{}}@acunsafe{@acucorrupt{}}}
+This function is a descriptor-relative version of the @code{access}
+function above. @xref{Descriptor-Relative Access}. The @var{flags}
+argument can contain a combination of the flags @code{AT_EACCESS} described
+below, @code{AT_EMPTY_PATH}, and @code{AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW}.
+
+@vtable @code
+@item AT_EACCESS
+This flag when passed to the @code{faccessat} function causes it to perform
+access checks using effective user and group IDs instead of real IDs, which
+is the default and matches the @code{access} function.
+@end vtable
+
+Compared to @code{access}, some additional error conditions can occur.
+@xref{Descriptor-Relative Access}.
+
+This function may not work correctly on older kernels missing the
+@code{faccessat2} system call.
+@end deftypefun
+
@node File Times
@subsection File Times
@@ -3849,7 +3872,6 @@ creation always works like @code{open} with @code{O_EXCL}.
The @code{mkdtemp} function comes from OpenBSD.
@c FIXME these are undocumented:
-@c faccessat
@c fchmodat
@c fchownat
@c futimesat