On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:57:21PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > fstat won't work, but fstatat with an empty path name would work. O_PATH > descriptors are suppose to be used as "location only descriptors". > We then extended the *at syscalls to work with EMPTY pathnames so that > O_PATH descriptors can be used with readlink, fchownat and fstatat(). > This was done to enable us to do these operation on symlinks. > (65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d) Could you define explicitly what you mean by "EMPTY" pathnames? Do you mean a path name that doesn't exist? (i.e., one of the directories specified in the pathname does not currently exist in the directory hierarchy visible to the process). - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
