On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > > this will be in the next alpha as > /dev/fcntl@... > because it works on all types of paths, even /dev/fd > > the patch happened quickly because the background work in pathdev() and > syscall restart intercepts (both part of the stability/debugging flurry this > summer) > were already in place > > it handles relative paths like this > /dev/fcntl@direct/./file_in_pwd
I don't like the name. It implies that all fcntl operations are possible which is not the case. For example, how do you pass the return value of fcntl() back to the user and what does it mean? How do you implement locks, shares, leases with /dev/fcntl? The name is misleading. Irek _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
