David Howells wrote:
> I still think that there should be some sort of equivalent of fcntl() that
> works on filenames rather than file descriptors for this sort of thing.
>
> Not all fcntl() options would be valid in such a context (for instance file
> locks), but some of the others proposed might.
fcntl() is almost by definition, an operation on an open fd. You'll
notice none of the existing fcntl() operations makes sense without a
descriptor. Only the proposed extensions, which it has been argued
should be ioctls not fcntls.
-- Jamie
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