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Re: [PATCH roland/opendir] Refactor opendir.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 14:06:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH roland/opendir] Refactor opendir.
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- References: <20150513233552 dot 3BAAB2C3A9B at topped-with-meat dot com> <20150514075815 dot GA27613 at vapier>
> On 13 May 2015 16:35, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I've refactored the opendir implementation, with a few effects.
> > The main one (and my motivation) is that opendir no longer calls
> > __opendirat, and so opendir uses only open while only __opendirat
> > uses openat.
>
> why ? seems like we generally want to move in the other direction, especially
> as newer kernel ports move to not even include non-at syscall variants.
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