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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:49:16 +0100
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On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 06:50, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Yes, changing cat to use openat() is no big deal. 1-2% additional coding 
> cost for cat, who cares? 

Large cost on its own. The FSF would almost certainly reject such a
change until someone had written portable emulation of the feature for 
every other platform which would mean vendor patches which would
essentially mean it wouldn't happen.

I know I rarely agree with Hans but I think he's right on this one, it
has to work with the existing open() API.

Alan