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Message-Id: <20120419163238.61D382C0DF@topped-with-meat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:32:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
I have no comment on the functionality. But "xstat" is probably a poor
choice of name. There is precedent for that function name with different
meaning in the userland APIs. (It's a moderately useless meaning inherited
from SVR4, but regardless overloading a name previously used is unwise.)
Thanks,
Roland
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