why we need openat et al in the kernel

2005-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
[ I have to preface this by saying I'm not interested in the attribute-related semantics of openat, but rather in the fd-relative-open--related semantics. ] Why do we need openat and related functions in the kernel? Without openat-like functions[1], it is impossible to process an

Re: gethrxtime: fall back on gettime?

2005-11-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming someone cares about the affected systems, I'd be happy to let them do it. But in the meantime, everyone else who wanted to run on mingw would be left high and dry, as coreutils wouldn't build. Is there