linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwUwQCJQFur67_FF3=5L1-q5P32JTm+TwPadKYnOo1B-A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:03:50 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        fstests@...r.kernel.org, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> [!] NOTE: This breaks UAPI introduced in 4.11-rc1.

Ugh.

I'm, applying this now, so that we don't end up with a released kernel
that supports the NULL filename thing.

I'm not happy about the timing though. And I hope nobody started using
statx() outside of tests.

                 Linus