Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O_NODE open flag

[Jamie Lokier]

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> We could implement something similar for non-directories as well, by
> treating a NULL path parameter to openat() to mean - reopen:
> 
>   fd2 = openat(fd, NULL, O_RDWR);

It would be nice to make this behavior consistent across all the *at()
functions where it is acceptable.

-- Jamie
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