Re: [PATCH 1/3] VFS "stat light" out of fstatat, and fine grained flags

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Oleg Drokin wrote:
>    Also it adds AT_STAT_SELF flag to mean that the stat should be executed not
>    on a path, but on the passed filedecriptor itself.

Do you think this is more attractive?

    ret = fstatat(fd, 0, &stat, AT_STAT_SELF|AT_STAT_TYPE|AT_STAT_SIZE);

Or this?

    ret = fstatat(fd, 0, &stat, AT_STAT_TYPE|AT_STAT_SIZE);

Where 0 in the path automatically means AT_STAT_SELF.

Or this?

    ret = fstatat(fd, AT_STAT_SELF, &stat, AT_STAT_TYPE|AT_STAT_SIZE);

Where AT_STAT_SELF is defined as (const char *)-1 in system headers,
to better catch null pointer application bugs.

-- Jamie