Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

Al Viro
2007-07-15T20:53:25Z

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:46:27PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 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 :)

No. They are not fscking forks. They are almost as revolting, but
not quite on the same level.

> 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?