From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: 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 14:13:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184534001.2765.5.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070715205313.GE21668@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 21:53 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:46:27PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > recently, the family of *at() syscalls and functions (openat, fstatat,
> > etc.) have been added to Linux and Glibc, respectively.
> > In short: I am missing xattr at functions :)
>
> No. They are not fscking forks. They are almost as revolting, but
> not quite on the same level.
I suspect he was asking for
int getxattrat(int fd, const char *path, const char *name, void *value,
size_t size, int flags)
int setxattrat(int fd, const char *path, const char *name, void *value,
size_t size, int xattrflags, int atflags)
rather than the ability to access xattrs as files.
> > 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.
--
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-15 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ 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 [this message]
2007-07-15 22:23 ` Al Viro
2007-07-15 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
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
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