Hi, So at the moment the kernel has pretty comprehensive support for the *at() variants of file API calls, and at one point I was rewriting my app to be a modern Unix citizen and use the *at variants, but I ran into one admittedly obscure corner case, which is the lack of API calls to manipulate the extended attributes of symbolic links relative to a dirfd.
Correctly handling xattrs (in particular, SELinux labels) is a key part of my application, so for now I'll just live with pathnames and their drawbacks, but: Is this intentional or an oversight? If the latter, should I try a patch? -- 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/
