On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Hi Jim, > >> As I tried to explain, there does not seem to be a clean way >> to solve the problem > > I believe the stuff with chdir() is only needed in order to handle special > cases like > - long directory and file names that would otherwise lead to ENAMETOOLONG, > - access relative to a directory where 'cd $(pwd)' would not work, because > of missing permissions in the parent directories. > > Therefore I believe it should be possible to propose an openat() > implementation > in libposix that, admittedly, cannot handle these special cases. But that > would > be better than nothing. And coreutils, which does not want these restrictions, > would continue to use the current code for openat().
Or we could use a #define switch to move to openat_die at compilation... It will be better and safer, and will avoid code duplication. BTW for fts what is I suppose mainly using by -R switch in coreutils we could use the chdir version .... (if you do not specifiy FTS_NOCHDIR) BTW do you agree with merging my fist two patch? Bastien Bastien
