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Message-ID: <4BCCD52B.4090906@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:11:55 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
CC:	maximilian attems <max@...o.at>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fcntl.h: define AT_EACCESS

On 04/19/2010 03:10 PM, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> On 04/19/2010 02:57 PM, maximilian attems wrote:
>> the dash code calling faccessat has the 4 params,
>> klibc faccessat had only 3 args, guess nobody had used it before.
> 
> The function is implemented at userlevel.  The kernel code has the same
> name but isn't a complete implementation.  There is no point in defining
> the symbol in the kernel headers.
> 

They should be added as a comment, at least, to avoid future conflicts.

	-hpa
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