Re: POSIX 2008 available, openat

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Part 4: New functions.
>
> Jim, some of these functions (fchmodat, fchownat, fdopendir, fstatat, mkdirat,
> openat, unlinkat) are provided by gnulib module 'openat'. Others (faccessat,
> linkat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat, renameat, symlinkat, utimensat) are 
> not.
> What do you think about
>   - splitting the module 'openat' in such a way that there is a module for
>     each of these POSIX functions?

Hi Bruno,

I don't see a pressing need,
but if you'd like to do that, I wouldn't object.

>   - adding replacements for faccessat, linkat, mkfifoat, mknodat, readlinkat,
>     renameat, symlinkat, utimensat?

Are any clients ready to use those functions?

>   - putting the whole thing under LGPL (currently GPL)?

How would that be useful, considering that openat emulation
depends on save-cwd (GPL), which can call xgetcwd (GPL), which
in turn can call xalloc_die (GPL)?