Roland Mainz <[email protected]> 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? Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
