linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 8/8] statx: Include a mask for stx

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Message-ID: <20170412151229.GA6126@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:12:29 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        hch@...radead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct
 statx

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 12:12:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 06:32:17PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Include a mask in struct stat to indicate which bits of stx_attributes the
> > filesystem actually supports.
> 
> What's the use case for this?

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