In the example snippet, we already have the fd, thus there's no need to refer to the file by name. And, /proc/ might be not mounted or not accessible. Noticed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/open.2 | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index 5d0ce66d8..1c775b6b3 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -811,9 +811,7 @@ fd = open("/path/to/dir", O_TMPFILE | O_RDWR, /* File I/O on 'fd'... */ -snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "/proc/self/fd/%d", fd); -linkat(AT_FDCWD, path, AT_FDCWD, "/path/for/file", - AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW); +linkat(fd, NULL, AT_FDCWD, "/path/for/file", AT_EMPTY_PATH); .EE .in .IP -- 2.19.0