1. Oracle Solaris 11.4 DTrace (Dynamic Tracing) Guide
  2. DTrace Providers
  3. syscall Provider
  4. syscall Probes
  5. New System Calls

New System Calls

Oracle Solaris 11 implements the following system interfaces as individual system calls:

  • faccessat()
  • fchmodat()
  • fchownat()
  • fstatat()
  • linkat()
  • mkdirat()
  • mknodat()
  • openat()
  • readlinkat()
  • renameat()
  • symlinkat()
  • unlinkat()

These system calls implement a superset of the functionality of their old non-at-suffixed counterparts. They take an additional first argument that is either an open directory file descriptor, in which case the operation on a relative path name is taken relative to the specified directory, or is the reserved value AT_FDCWD, in which case the operation takes place relative to the current working directory.