On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Simon Toedt <simon.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> > wrote: >> - If files or directories are opened relative to /dev/fd/$fd/$path >> |sfopen()|/|sfopenat()| will now bypass the /dev/fd filesystem >> completely (which gives a nice performance boost). The only exception >> is that this can *NOT* be done for a plain /dev/fd/$fd, e.g. >> /dev/fd/15. The problem is that there is AFAIK no way to open a file >> from a file descriptor without using the /dev/fd filesystem or using >> |dup()| ... but |dup()| rules itself out because the resulting >> "cloned" fd still shares attributes like the current seek position >> with the original fd... > > I don't want to nitpick, but wouldn't -d for directory more > appropriate instead of -f?
Mhhh... -f was picked based on the name "file descriptor" (while the long option name is "--dirfd") ... ... David: What do you think ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
