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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Sixt" <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Matthias Lederhofer" <matled@gmx.net>,
	"Jürgen Rühle" <j-r@online.de>,
	austin-group-futures-l@opengroup.org
Subject: Re: setting working dir in posix_spawn() (Re: Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:13:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C767682.7030700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100826061815.GH9708@burratino>

On 08/26/2010 12:18 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Do you think there would be any interest in a posix_spawn() variant
> that takes a dir parameter?  I am imagining something like this:

Of your variants, I would most prefer:

>   int posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir(posix_spawn_file_actions_t
> 	*file_actions, int dirfd);

For that matter, it may also be worth adding 
posix_spawn_file_actions_addopenat, which mirrors the recent addition of 
openat() semantics.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-26 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-24 17:33 Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case Linus Torvalds
2010-08-25  1:36 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-25  7:00   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-08-25 14:22     ` Eric Blake
2010-08-26  6:18       ` setting working dir in posix_spawn() (Re: Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case) Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-26  7:16         ` Joshua Juran
2010-08-26 14:13         ` Eric Blake [this message]
2010-08-25 19:16 ` Fix 'git log' early pager startup error case Junio C Hamano
2010-08-25 20:05   ` Linus Torvalds

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