Andreas Dilger wrote: > Generally, any application doing tree traversal will have the parent > directory open doing readdir() or getdents() so I don't think that is > a huge problem. I can't think of any reason to disallow AT_FDCWD though. It's already there - are we proposing to take it away? :-) > > Also we still need an fstat light version anyway, don't we? > > Possibly, yes, though it isn't a strict requirement. The man page > reports that fstatat() is only for directories, but possibly it > could also be used on regular files? Suggestion: Passing AT_SELF (NULL) as the pathname means get the attributes of the fd argument itself, instead of doing a name lookup. -- Jamie -- 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
