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Message-ID: <25305.1463996013@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 10:33:33 +0100 From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote: > Honestly I think this really matters on the amount of 'emulation' we > need - if it's just adding a new flag that can be trivially generated > in the syscall stub in userland that's probably fine, but if we have > actually differing semantics (like the stat weak attributes) I'd rather > have a properly documented syscall. If we otherwise need to rewrite > whole structures I'd much rather do that in kernel space. I very much agree. > And to get back to stat: if would be really useful to coordinate the > new one with glibc so that we don't end up with two different stat > structures again like we do for a lot of platforms at the moment. I've tried reaching out to them and others, but no one responded. 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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