Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Need for llistxattrat()/lgetxattrat()/lsetxattrat() | From | Colin Walters <> | Date | Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:28:02 -0400 |
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Hi,
So at the moment the kernel has pretty comprehensive support for the *at() variants of file API calls, and at one point I was rewriting my app to be a modern Unix citizen and use the *at variants, but I ran into one admittedly obscure corner case, which is the lack of API calls to manipulate the extended attributes of symbolic links relative to a dirfd.
Correctly handling xattrs (in particular, SELinux labels) is a key part of my application, so for now I'll just live with pathnames and their drawbacks, but:
Is this intentional or an oversight? If the latter, should I try a patch?
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