Don Cragun wrote: >> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:40:30 -0500 >> From: Rich Brown <Rich.Brown at sun.com> >> > ... ... ... > >> The team agrees with PSARC's advice and proposes to add the AT_TRIGGER bit to >> the flag parameter of fstatat(). >> > > 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). > >
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? > > 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. >> > The > > This case needs to be extended to update nftw64() as well as nftw(). > Yes, we will do that. > >> second attachment (stat2_diffs.txt) is the diff of the update to the stat(2) >> > man > >> page. >> > > Don't we also need an fsattr(5) man page update for the section on > fstatat()? > > Yes, we will need to do that. > - Don > > ... ... ... > >> Rich >> > > >
