Re: openat-die module

[Jim Meyering]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Application developers might wish to use custom versions of
> openat_save_fail and openat_restore_fail, instead of the
> ones provided in openat-die.c.  Therefore, I propose the
> following patch:
>
> 2007-05-11  Sergey Poznyakoff  <address@hidden>
>
>        * m4/openat.m4 (gl_FUNC_OPENAT): Do not require openat-die
>        * modules/openat (Files): Remove openat-die.c
>        (Depends-on): Add openat-die
>        * modules/openat-die: New module.

Hi Sergey,

That's a fine idea.
openat-die.c was extracted from openat.c with this in mind, but
no one bothered to create the module, since we hadn't yet found
a client with that need.  Do you know of such a client application?

With the change below, you're welcome to commit.

...
> Index: modules/openat-die
> ===================================================================
> --- /dev/null 1994-07-18 02:46:18.000000000 +0300
> +++ modules/openat-die        2007-05-11 21:44:03.000000000 +0300
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +Description:
> +Report an openat failure and exit.

The description from openat-die.c is more precise:
Report a save- or restore-cwd failure in our openat replacement and then exit.

> +Files:
> +lib/openat-die.c
...