[Toybox] Why O_NONBLOCK? No idea. Why not O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW? Because reasons.
José Bollo
jobol at nonadev.net
Tue May 19 00:33:13 PDT 2015
Hi Rob,
The title of this message comes from a line that you wrote in ls.
The mysterious reason is that when applied on FIFO the openat was
unexpectingly blocking if called without O_NONBLOCK
Please note that the case S_ISSOCK has to be treated in the same way
that the links, using a path because otherwise, the openat call fails.
Also note that openat may fail on other some other (unidentified)
(non-flying) filesystem object whereas getting the security attribute by
the file name succeeds.
So using the path is a remedy in case of a failure of openat.
This last note are as diff in a previous mail.
One time again, thank you for your good work.
Best regards
José
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