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

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Message-ID: <AANLkTiljx7NzPWiiWnFznfqSX898BEyaxysJt4Fc_xKo@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:49:13 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>,
	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 Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:35, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> That's really job for a pathconf system call that allows quering random
> paramters.

Linus has always objected to sysconf/pathconf-like syscalls.  If you
get it in I'm all for it.
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