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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O_NODE open flag
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:08:31 +0100
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Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> We could implement something similar for non-directories as well, by
> treating a NULL path parameter to openat() to mean - reopen:
> 
>   fd2 = openat(fd, NULL, O_RDWR);

It would be nice to make this behavior consistent across all the *at()
functions where it is acceptable.

-- Jamie