Re: [PATCH -V18 05/13] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink

Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-20T08:32:20Z

Changing the interfaces of existing system calls to accept a NULL name
which previously wasn't acceptable is not valid. Even for new system
calls I think it's a bad idea. utimensat already has the most ugly
code of all fs related system calls because of that.