> On Dec 12, 2019, at 2:46 AM, Duy Nguyen <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Are there good reasons to? I think these are mostly to prevent races
> or maybe when path resolution becomes too expensive.

Also needed to access files whose path exceeds PATH_MAX.  I’m not advodating anything concerning SRFI 170… just adding an important reason why openat exists.  Gambit uses openat, unlinkat, etc (if available) to implement open-file, delete-file, etc that work regardless of the length of the path.

Marc