On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:21:48AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Eric Blake wrote:
>>and/or have openat() implemented directly in cygwin so that the openat
>>emulation of open("/proc/self/fd/4/..") is avoided (not to mention more
>>efficient by avoiding several other syscalls during the emulation).
>
>I think implementing openat() directly would be the clear win here,
>since the ".." processing seems to be such a landmine. Of course
>without a patch this is just hot air on my part.
But, then, it has been at least a couple of months since we've had
a rousing discussion about how awful cygwin's '..' handling is, so
it's clearly time to go into great depth about how useful it would
be if cygwin just did things the RIGHT, the TRUE, the POSIX way.
cgf
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