In article <20050306160850.GA2877@s102-n054.tele2.cz>,
Jaromir Dolecek  <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:55:41PM +0100, Steinar Hamre wrote:
>> I'd like som feedback on this approach before continuing with
>> fstatat(2) and opendir(3).
>
>What's the rationale for adding these syscalls? Is this at least
>in SUS? It doesn't seem as particularily useful functionality.
>
>Jaromir

It is very useful for directory traversal operations ala fts(3).

christos