Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:53:13 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: *at syscalls for xattrs? |
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:46:27PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > recently, the family of *at() syscalls and functions (openat, fstatat, > etc.) have been added to Linux and Glibc, respectively. > In short: I am missing xattr at functions :)
No. They are not fscking forks. They are almost as revolting, but not quite on the same level.
> BTW, why is fstatat called fstatat and not statat? (Same goes for > futimesat.) It does not take a file descriptor for the file argument. > Otherwise we'd also need fopenat/funlinkat, etc. Any reasons?
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