linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/12] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available

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Message-ID: <4234.1450740084@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:21:24 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, arnd@...db.de, linux-afs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available

Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:

> But fstat() is really different operation to stat() -- tell me about
> my file descriptor vs. tell me about this filename, and ptrace (and
> some "security" solutions) might want to allow one but disallow the
> second. I'd not group them together..

You can argue it either way.  I think Linus came down on the side of combining
them.

David
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