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Re: openat fakery is misleading


On Dec 10 17:27, Zefram wrote:
> Providing a faked openat(2) is far worse than providing no openat(2)
> at all.  As long as these functions cannot be implemented in a way that
> exhibits the distinctive behaviour of the real thing, they should either
> be unavailable at compile time or consistently signal ENOSYS at runtime.

Since existing applications already rely on the function entry points,
that's not feasible.  So either the functions stay as they are for the
time being, or they need fixing.  Patches welcome.


Corinna

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