>Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:40:30 -0500 >From: Rich Brown <Rich.Brown at sun.com> ... ... ... >The team agrees with PSARC's advice and proposes to add the AT_TRIGGER bit to >the flag parameter of fstatat().
AT_TRIGGER may be useful in standards conforming applications using extensions, but the standards don't allow us to pollute the namespace with this symbol. I strongly suggest renaming this to _AT_TRIGGER (at least in standards conforming compilation modes) until this flag is added to a future revision of the standards (if that ever happens). Has adding this flag to the standards been discussed with the other UNIX System vendors (Apple, HP, IBM) or Linux system vendors? > >The first attachment (spec_update.txt) is the updated spec with diff-marks. The This case needs to be extended to update nftw64() as well as nftw(). >second attachment (stat2_diffs.txt) is the diff of the update to the stat(2) man >page. Don't we also need an fsattr(5) man page update for the section on fstatat()? - Don ... ... ... > > Rich
