*at syscalls for xattrs?

Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-15T19:46:38Z

Hi,

recently, the family of *at() syscalls and functions (openat, fstatat,
etc.) have been added to Linux and Glibc, respectively.
In short: I am missing xattr at functions :)

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?

Thanks,
Jan
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