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Re: env -C lacks fchdir support
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: env -C lacks fchdir support |
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Sun, 9 Sep 2018 17:01:39 -0700 |
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On 07/09/18 08:24, Eric Blake wrote:
> There are cases where you cannot directly change directory to a given
> location via a path name, but where you can hold an fd to that directory
> and where fchdir() will work. Since we've already added 'env -C' as an
> extension for chdir, should we add a counterpart extension that permits
> fchdir to an inherited fd, even for systems that lack /proc/NNN/fd/MMM?
Maybe. Do you have concrete examples for where this might be useful.
cheers