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Message-ID: <19184.1335448455@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:54:15 +0100 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, wine-devel@...ehq.org, kfm-devel@....org, nautilus-list@...me.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com> wrote: > 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.) I've no particular attachment to the name 'xstat'. If you'd prefer 'statx' I could go for that. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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