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Message-ID: <4FA5CD15.10503@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 05 May 2012 18:00:05 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH

On 05/03/2012 01:27 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> fstat won't work, but fstatat with an empty path name would work.

Why the h... make *such* a distinction?

	-hpa

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