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To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?
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Al Viro wrote:
> 
>>>> 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"

Yup.  I filed an objection to this with the POSIX committee, but it was
rejected :(

	-hpa