From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:04:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716080401.GI21668@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707160954160.25352@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:56:10AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Just one question: what the bleeding hell for? Not that the rest of
> >..at() family made any damn sense as an interface...
>
> fd1 = open("dir1", O_DIRECTORY):
> fd2 = open("dir2", O_DIRECTORY);
> system("mount -t tmpfs none dir1");
> system("mount -t tmpfs none dir2");
> openat(fd1, "file1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
> openat(fd2, "file2", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
>
> If you have a better way to accomplish this, let me know. :)
To accomplish what, exactly? Access to overmounted directory?
So bind it elsewhere and use that. I still don't see the point -
neither of the interface nor of your example...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-16 8:04 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
2007-07-15 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-16 7:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-16 8:04 ` Al Viro [this message]
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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