linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

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Message-ID: <4643C071.608@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 18:01:37 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> I'd be happy to have them.  While it's not the nicest API in the world
> it's in Posix and we have to support it at the library level, so we
> should better get it right.
> 
> I'd like to avoid having a big swithc statement in every filesystem,
> though, instead of we should have a table-driven approach instead
> where each filesystem defines one table (or multiple ones when it
> supports subtypes with different limits) and just sets a pointer in
> the superblock to it.
> 

This is starting to sound an awful lot like statfs().  Maybe we could
create a new statfs call which takes a buffer size input (so that we can
add new fields as time goes on) and which returns the necessary information?

	-hpa
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