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Re: POSIX 2008 available, openat
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: POSIX 2008 available, openat |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:52:04 +0100 |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Part 4: New functions.
>
> Jim, some of these functions (fchmodat, fchownat, fdopendir, fstatat, mkdirat,
> openat, unlinkat) are provided by gnulib module 'openat'. Others (faccessat,
> linkat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat, renameat, symlinkat, utimensat) are
> not.
> What do you think about
> - splitting the module 'openat' in such a way that there is a module for
> each of these POSIX functions?
Hi Bruno,
I don't see a pressing need,
but if you'd like to do that, I wouldn't object.
> - adding replacements for faccessat, linkat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat,
> renameat, symlinkat, utimensat?
Are any clients ready to use those functions?
> - putting the whole thing under LGPL (currently GPL)?
How would that be useful, considering that openat emulation
depends on save-cwd (GPL), which can call xgetcwd (GPL), which
in turn can call xalloc_die (GPL)?
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