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Message-Id: <20120426182202.9B2442C0EA@topped-with-meat.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:22:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Paul Eggert <eggert@...ucla.edu>, 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:
> 
> > statx seems like a better family of names.  I also think it's worthwhile to
> > see if the interface can be made to more closely match the AIX precedent.
> 
> I'm not sure we can make Linux xstat (or whatever) match AIX statxat() very
> closely, at least from a syscall interface point of view.  

OK.  It was just worth a look.


Thanks,
Roland
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