Redundant syscalls?

From: Lorenzo Allegrucci (l.allegrucci@tiscalinet.it)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 11:24:02 EST

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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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