linux-kernel - Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <469AA90C.8080105@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:09:00 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

Al Viro wrote:
> 
>>>> 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?
>>> Ulrich having an odd taste?
>> Solaris compatibility.
> 
> "Sun having no taste whatsoever"

Yup.  I filed an objection to this with the POSIX committee, but it was
rejected :(

	-hpa
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/