linux-kernel - Re: [patch 13/24] vfs: utimes cleanup

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Message-Id: <E1JwY9N-0006Dw-47@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 09:45:17 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	drepper@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 13/24] vfs: utimes cleanup

> > + * do_futimesat - change times on filename
> 
> > +int do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, int flags)
> 
> Erm...  Is there any reason to
> 	* have do_utimes() used anywhere
> 	* _not_ have do_futimesat() called "do_utimes"?

Review ping-pong.  My original patch did that, and Christoph didn't
like it.  I don't care that much actually, one thing I like better in
the second version is to have a separate function for the path lookup
thing (now called do_utimes(), but it could be renamed to
name_utimes() or whatever).

Miklos
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