From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 18:00:05 -0700 Message-ID: <4FA5CD15.10503@zytor.com> References: <1335669917-23970-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <877gwxacti.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> <20120430114410.GB28308@thunk.org>User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11.1+346~g13d19c3 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) <87fwbhhdp2.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87fwbhhdp2.fsf-6yE53ggjAfyqSkle7U1LjlaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Ted Ts'o , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Mike Frysinger , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org, Richard Weinberger , lkml List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 05/03/2012 01:27 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > fstat won't work, but fstatat with an empty path name would work. Why the h... make *such* a distinction? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html