From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:09:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469AA90C.8080105@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070715222323.GG21668@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro wrote:
>
>>>> 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?
>>> Ulrich having an odd taste?
>> Solaris compatibility.
>
> "Sun having no taste whatsoever"
Yup. I filed an objection to this with the POSIX committee, but it was
rejected :(
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-15 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-15 19:46 *at syscalls for xattrs? Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-15 20:53 ` Al Viro
2007-07-15 21:13 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-07-15 22:23 ` Al Viro
2007-07-15 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-16 7:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-16 8:04 ` Al Viro
2007-07-16 8:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-16 9:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-07-16 9:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-16 9:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-16 17:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-16 20:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-16 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-16 9:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-16 9:12 ` Andreas Schwab
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