[PATCH v5] Print absolute paths in printpathn when -yy is used

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Wed Aug 20 16:52:13 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:50:54AM +0530, Zubin Mithra wrote:
> > When descriptors decoding is enabled, descriptors passed to *at syscalls
> > are decoded anyway, so we could use this information to decode relative
> > paths passed to *at syscalls.
> 
> Sounds good -- however the sys_symlinkat syscall seems to be an edge case
> that needs to be handled separately(oldname uses cwd and newname uses
> newfd).
> 
> sys_symlinkat(const char *oldname, int newfd, const char *newname);

symlinkat is not the only exception, there are also renameat, renameat2,
and linkat: these syscalls take two dirfd descriptors.


-- 
ldv
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