2009/7/25 Hasso Tepper (via DragonFly issue tracker) <[email protected]>: > These 'at' system calls are POSIX.1 nowadays: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chmod.html > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mknod.html
Thanks for the links. I discovered while stealing the man page from FreeBSD a mention of fd opened for searching but I didn't understand what that meant. Now this is clearer. I'll try to implement O_SEARCH to be compliant.
