Openat() and fexecve() committed

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Garrett Wollman wrote:
> The 2008 version has not yet been ratified, so it is not available to
> the "general public".  Those who care enough to join the committee (by
> signing up for the mailing-list, essentially) can get a password which
> will allow them to read the latest draft, which I believe is supposed
> to go out to ballot soon.
>   

I just skimmed what I could find about the *at() syscalls. Whilst this 
strikes me as useful, and fit for the purpose it's described for (avoid 
race conditions), it also gives me the heebie jeebies, as it involves 
the addition of yet another bunch of syscalls with slightly different 
semantics, to an already large flat namespace.

I hope someone adds some nice syntactic sugar to Python for it once it's 
ready.

cheese
BMS




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