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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: A challenge to all true kernel hackers - conditional symlinks.
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 02:07:48 GMT
Message-ID: <C3r791.6sB@sugar.neosoft.com>
References: <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> <JKH.93Mar10215639@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3qH3r.I7n@BitBlocks.com>
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In article <C3qH3r.I7n@BitBlocks.com> bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah) writes:
> b) make the mapping of a filename to a handle a separate syscall.

Use open/open1:
	fd = open(name, O_TOKEN);
	fd = open1(dirfd, name, namelen, O_TOKEN);
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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