Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-15T23:13:26Z

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