Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > On Wednesday 11 November 2009 18:13:41 Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> writes: >> > Mike Frysinger writes: >> >> --at-fd might be a better explicit option without getting too verbose ? >> > >> > Indeed. >> >> Note that the "at" in those functions is actually short for "attribute". > > i wasnt aware of that, and the posix docs dont seem to use this word in any > of > the function descriptions.
Sun originally invented them to access the extended attributes of a file which are organized in a kind of hidden filesystem rooted at the file's inode. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
