On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:07:07AM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > 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? "". Normally yields -EINVAL when used as a relative pathname in ...at() syscalls. -- 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
