Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> Without looking at the matching code... does the standard (assuming
> |openat()| passed the standards yet) about |cloned_fd =
> openat(original_fd, ".", ...)| (the idea is to reference the current fd
> as "." and hope it will open another fd to the same file) ?
The POSIX.1-2008 standard has been recently approved.
In POSIX, the file descriptor must be a directory file descriptor.
Introducing new functionality now without discussing this in the opengroup
mailing list does not look like a good idea.
BTW: When will Solaris support O_SEARCH and other new POSIX flags?
J?rg
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