From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752657Ab2EFBAl (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2012 21:00:41 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57018 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752593Ab2EFBAj (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 May 2012 21:00:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA5CD15.10503@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 18:00:05 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" CC: "Ted Ts'o" , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Mike Frysinger , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, Richard Weinberger , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH References: <1335669917-23970-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <877gwxacti.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> <20120430114410.GB28308@thunk.org>User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11.1+346~g13d19c3 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) <87fwbhhdp2.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <87fwbhhdp2.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/03/2012 01:27 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > fstat won't work, but fstatat with an empty path name would work. Why the h... make *such* a distinction? -hpa