From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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 23:23:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070715222323.GG21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184534001.2765.5.camel@entropy>
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:13:21PM -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
>
> 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.
Just one question: what the bleeding hell for? Not that the rest of
..at() family made any damn sense as an interface...
> > > 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"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-15 22:23 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
2007-07-15 22:23 ` Al Viro [this message]
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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