linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall?

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:40:22 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall?

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:45, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> I don't quite get what ST_WRITE is supposed to mean.  All but that one
> can be supported trivially.

ST_WRITE comes elsewhere.  We don't use it on Linux.


> In addition ST_APPEND and ST_IMMUTABLE are rather puzzling.  Do you
> really want these to mean if the file we call statfs on have the
> immutable/append only bits set?  That is mixing two bits of stat
> information into statfs?

Ignore these as well, they also has a different source.
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