On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:03:15 David Howells wrote:
> ssize_t ret = xstat(int dfd,
> const char *filename,
> unsigned atflag,
> struct xstat *buffer,
> size_t buflen);
>
> ssize_t ret = fxstat(int fd,
> struct xstat *buffer,
> size_t buflen);
>
>
> The dfd, filename, atflag and fd parameters indicate the file to query. There
> is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be emulated with xstat(), passing 0
> instead of AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW as atflag.
Do we actually need the fxstat variant? IIRC, some *at syscalls just
operate on dfd when filename==NULL, which would be trivial to do here.
Arnd
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