Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] pseudo: Fix statx function usage

["Mark Hatle" <mark.hatle@kernel.crashing.org>]

On 10/12/20 2:08 PM, Seebs wrote:
> On Wed,  7 Oct 2020 17:20:18 +0100
> "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> +There is magic in the posts where specific variable names have
>> specific +magic. For that magic to work, "path" needs to be used not
>> "pathname" as +is currently there. Fix this, which fixes path issues
>> on systems using +statx (Ubuntu 20.04 in particular).
> 
> So, usually if "pathname" is used, it's intentional to suppress the
> special magic behavior. Usually, but not always. In this case, the man
> page does use "pathname" and sometimes that means it's just a cut and
> paste error.
> 
> My man page also says there's no glibc wrapper for statx, making me
> slightly surprised that a wrapper for it is needed/relevant.

I looked into this.  It appears (after pseudo was written, but) about 7 or so
years ago, all of the man pages were re-written and the language was changed.

So 'pathname' no longer has the same syntactic meaning that it did when pseudo
was first written.  (It's not just statx, I looked at things like fopen, open, etc.)

--Mark

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