+2011-05-10 Bastien Roucariès <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
+
+ openat: correct new comment
+ * lib/openat-proc.c (openat_proc_name): Correct the comment.
+
2011-05-10 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
openat: add comments
proc_status = -1;
else
{
- /* Detect whether /proc/self/fd/../fd exists. On Linux, that name
- resolves to /proc/self/fd, which was opened above. However, on
- Solaris, it may resolve to /proc/self/fd/fd, which cannot exist,
- since all names in /proc/self/fd are numeric. */
+ /* Detect whether /proc/self/fd/%i/../fd exists, where %i is the
+ number of a file descriptor open on /proc/self/fd. On Linux,
+ that name resolves to /proc/self/fd, which was opened above.
+ However, on Solaris, it may resolve to /proc/self/fd/fd, which
+ cannot exist, since all names in /proc/self/fd are numeric. */
char dotdot_buf[PROC_SELF_FD_NAME_SIZE_BOUND (sizeof "../fd" - 1)];
sprintf (dotdot_buf, PROC_SELF_FD_FORMAT, proc_self_fd, "../fd");
proc_status = access (dotdot_buf, F_OK) ? -1 : 1;