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Re: FYI: new openat-like function: mkdirat
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- Cc: bug-gnulib at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:55:00 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: FYI: new openat-like function: mkdirat
I think that the Solaris *at functions were really primarily intended for
use with O_XATTR to get at "file attribute" magic pseudo-directories rather
than to optimize use of normal directories and files. Probably mkdirat
doesn't make sense in Solaris attribute pseudo-directories. But mkdirat is
as useful in general as any of those *at additions, so I'd say we might as
well have it.