Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751310AbVKJHu0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:50:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751314AbVKJHu0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:50:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:63699 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751310AbVKJHu0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:50:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4372FB65.1030309@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:48:53 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20051105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: openat() References: <43724AB3.40309@redhat.com> <4372F95E.3070107@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <4372F95E.3070107@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 14 Jeff Garzik wrote: > I'm interested in openat(2) for the race-free implications. Given the limitation that only directory descriptors can be used without the O_XATTR flag I've already added openat to glibc. It has no O_XATTR support but I don't consider this important. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/