Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

Al Viro
2007-07-16T08:04:17Z

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:56:10AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Just one question: what the bleeding hell for? Not that the rest of
> >..at() family made any damn sense as an interface...
>
> fd1 = open("dir1", O_DIRECTORY):
> fd2 = open("dir2", O_DIRECTORY);
> system("mount -t tmpfs none dir1");
> system("mount -t tmpfs none dir2");
> openat(fd1, "file1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
> openat(fd2, "file2", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
>
> If you have a better way to accomplish this, let me know. :)

To accomplish what, exactly? Access to overmounted directory?
So bind it elsewhere and use that. I still don't see the point -
neither of the interface nor of your example...