Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:40:23 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: *at syscalls for xattrs? |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> Well, as Jeremy pointed out, in the absence of threads you can do the >> same thing with fchdir(), however, that's much more of a hack. > > My posixutils project (coreutils replacement) used fchdir(2), but that > still doesn't get you 100% race-free. It gets you close, yes. >
I guess you're horked in the case where a single system call (e.g. rename()) needs more than one pathname. Yet another reason why a single cwd isn't enough.
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