Did you go to bugs.opensolaris.org and filed a RFE?
Which version of POSIX defines this openat() flag?
Olga
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Joerg Schilling
<joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some years ago, we did introduce a method to POSIX that
> allows to open a directory file in a mode that does not
> require read permission. This is needed in order to make
>
> openat(fd, name, flag)
>
> usable to implement a "chdir" replacement for threads and
> in order to allow opent() to be used for infinite path name lenghts.
>
> Some years passed since then but Solaris still does not implement
>
> fd = open("somedir", O_SEARCH|O_DIRECTORY);
>
> we currently need read access to a directory, as Solaris does not implement
> O_SEARCH. If there is a directory with permission 0111:
>
> d--x--x--x 2 user group 117 Apr 10 23:25 somedir
>
> we currently cannot use openat() as there is currently no way to open(2)
> "somedir".
>
> Is there hope that this feature will appear on Solaris soon?
>
> Jörg
>
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