[issue1435] openat(2)

[Nicolas Thery]

2009/7/25 Hasso Tepper (via DragonFly issue tracker)
<submit at crater.dragonflybsd.org>:
> 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.