On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:02:35AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Another data point: I've started looking at the *at() > functions for libarchive's deep directory handling. The > current code uses chdir() to manipulate files with very long > pathnames, but that causes complications for libarchive > clients that I'd like to eliminate. Using *at() functions > to manage a "virtual current directory" looks a lot more robust.
> Unfortunately, there are still a few operations that are > unavailable with this paradigm: > * ACL functions > * extattr functions Right. As with pathconf(), "at" variants with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW option would be useful here. > * link() > * symlink() linkat() and symlinkat() exist. In addition to providing the "at" functionality, linkat() allows creating hard links to symlinks. -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
