openat(2)

[Hasso Tepper]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Hmm.  The linux folks came up with something interesting.  I like
> the concept, go for it.
>
> There is a whole category of 'at' system calls that could be added.

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
etc


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Hasso Tepper