linux-kernel - Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

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Message-ID: <2418416.1585691663@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:54:23 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, dray@...hat.com,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        andres@...razel.de, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
        Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
Subject: Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com> wrote:

> - improve fsinfo() to provide set (list) of the attributes by one call

That would be my preferred way.  I wouldn't want to let the user pin copies of
state, and I wouldn't want to make open(O_PATH) do it automatically.

David