Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (11 Dec 2019 12:43 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 12:59 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Duy Nguyen (12 Dec 2019 13:03 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 13:21 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (12 Dec 2019 13:27 UTC)
Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Lassi Kortela (18 Dec 2019 20:52 UTC)

Re: Operations on file descriptors in addition to pathnames Duy Nguyen 12 Dec 2019 13:02 UTC

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 7:59 PM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:
> Then again,
> if the pathname exceeds PATH_MAX you wouldn't be able to operate on it
> anyway.

Not really. As an example, you can open the first half of the path
(still shorter than PATH_MAX) with open(), then pass the second half
to openat().
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Duy