Don Cragun wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:40:30 -0500
>> From: Rich Brown <Rich.Brown at sun.com>
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>> The team agrees with PSARC's advice and proposes to add the AT_TRIGGER bit to
>> the flag parameter of fstatat().
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> 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).
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We will do that.


> Has adding this flag to the standards been discussed with the other
> UNIX System vendors (Apple, HP, IBM) or Linux system vendors?
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No, we just bite the bullet yesterday with respect to taking this approach.


>> The first attachment (spec_update.txt) is the updated spec with diff-marks.  
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> This case needs to be extended to update nftw64() as well as nftw().
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Yes, we will do that.


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>> second attachment (stat2_diffs.txt) is the diff of the update to the stat(2) 
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>> page.
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> Don't we also need an fsattr(5) man page update for the section on
> fstatat()?
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Yes, we will need to do that.


>  - Don
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>>      Rich
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