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@@ -452,18 +452,6 @@ in conjunction with mandatory file locks and with file leases, see
.\" Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH
.\" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.man, gmane.linux.kernel
.\"
-.\" FIXME: The following needs to be documented somewhere
-.\" commit bcda76524cd1fa32af748536f27f674a13e56700
-.\" Allow O_PATH for symlinks
-.\" ...
-.\" We will be able to do useful things with them after the next commit...
-.\" readlinkat() and fchownat() will be possible to use with dfd being an
-.\" O_PATH-opened symlink and empty relative pathname. Combined with
-.\" open_by_handle() it'll give us a way to do realink-by-handle and
-.\" lchown-by-handle without messing with more redundant syscalls.
-.\" ....
-.\" See also commit 1fa1e7f615f4d3ae436fa319af6e4eebdd4026a8
-.\"
Obtain a file descriptor that can be used for two purposes:
to indicate a location in the file-system tree and
to perform operations that act purely at the file descriptor level.