Dear Renzo, On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 12:04:07PM +0100, Renzo Davoli wrote: > Dear Alejandro, > > utimensat and faccessat support the flag AT_EMPTY_PATH since Linux 5.8 but > this option is still missing in the man pages. > > (actually Linux 5.8 added faccessat2: glibc wrapper for faccessat > uses faccessat2, and faccessat2 does support AT_EMPTY_PATH). > > I think the standard text used in many other -at man page could fit > for these system calls, too. > > AT_EMPTY_PATH (since Linux 5.8) > If pathname is an empty string, operate on the file referred to > by dirfd (which may have been obtained using the open(2) O_PATH > flag). In this case, dirfd can refer to any type of file, not > just a directory. If dirfd is AT_FDCWD, the call operates on > the current working directory. This flag is Linux-specific; > define _GNU_SOURCE to obtain its definition. Thanks for reporting that. Would you mind preparing a patch updating the page? If you need any help, just ask for it. Cheers, Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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