Redundant syscalls?

Lorenzo Allegrucci (l.allegrucci@tiscalinet.it)
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:24:02 +0100

I was wondering why do we need fsetxattr(2), fgetxattr(2) etc when we
already have setxattr(2), getxattr(2) etc working on file names
instead of file descriptors.
truncate(2)/ftruncate(2) is another more traditional example.

Thanks
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