Re: [PATCH -V19 00/15] Generic name to handle and open by handlesyscalls

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Neil Brown wrote:
> > You can implement ->read() on the symlink file instead.
> 
> I would suggest that is a much uglier hack than changed readlinkat to accept
> a NULL pathname.

I think read(2) is a natural interface for reading symlinks and would
have been a perfectly fine API to choose instead of a specialized
syscall.

Thanks,
Miklos
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