On Tuesday 25 January 2011 18:45:15 Roland McGrath wrote: > I know of no reason to > think that the current treatment of the empty string was ever intended at > the creation of the *at interfaces. I always assumed that this was done so that the *at syscalls can replace both the ones that take a file descriptor (e.g. fstat) and the ones that take a pathname (e.g. stat), which is sensible for the non-AT_FDCWD case, although not documented in the man pages. Treating the empty string special for AT_FDCWD is rather pointless, but at least consistent. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
