Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> Well, as Jeremy pointed out, in the absence of threads you can do the >> same thing with fchdir(), however, that's much more of a hack. > > My posixutils project (coreutils replacement) used fchdir(2), but that > still doesn't get you 100% race-free. It gets you close, yes. > I guess you're horked in the case where a single system call (e.g. rename()) needs more than one pathname. Yet another reason why a single cwd isn't enough. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
