Re: *at syscalls for xattrs?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>> Well, as Jeremy pointed out, in the absence of threads you can do the
>> same thing with fchdir(), however, that's much more of a hack.
> 
> My posixutils project (coreutils replacement) used fchdir(2), but that
> still doesn't get you 100% race-free.  It gets you close, yes.
> 

I guess you're horked in the case where a single system call (e.g.
rename()) needs more than one pathname.  Yet another reason why a single
cwd isn't enough.

	-hpa
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