Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote: > But fstat() is really different operation to stat() -- tell me about > my file descriptor vs. tell me about this filename, and ptrace (and > some "security" solutions) might want to allow one but disallow the > second. I'd not group them together..
You can argue it either way. I think Linus came down on the side of combining them. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
