linux-kernel - *at syscalls for xattrs?

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Date:	Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:46:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: *at syscalls for xattrs?

Hi,

recently, the family of *at() syscalls and functions (openat, fstatat, 
etc.) have been added to Linux and Glibc, respectively.
In short: I am missing xattr at functions :)

BTW, why is fstatat called fstatat and not statat? (Same goes for 
futimesat.) It does not take a file descriptor for the file argument. 
Otherwise we'd also need fopenat/funlinkat, etc. Any reasons?

Thanks,
	Jan
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