On 8 July 2014 13:07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There's two different AT_* namespaces. The flags that most *at syscalls > has, and the the one for the dfd argument, which currently only contains > AT_FDCWD, although a new constant has recently been proposed to it. > > Having an AT_BENEATH magic value for the dfd argument certainly feels > elegant to me How would that work? The directory beneath which openat is looking is conveyed in the dfd argument itself. If I'm understanding this right, you'd have to pass a different value for "open relative to fd#5" and "open relative to fd#5, but beneath it only", which doesn't sound hugely elegant to me. Meredydd -- 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
