linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] quota: Add mountpath based quota support

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Date:   Tue, 25 May 2021 18:19:25 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] quota: Add mountpath based quota support

On Tue 25-05-21 09:05:50, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Adding the dfd argument should be as simple as this patch (which also
> moves the cmd argument later to match typical calling conventions).
> 
> It might be worth to rename the syscall to quotactlat to better match
> other syscalls.  A flags argument doesn't make much sense here, as the
> cmd argument can be used for extensions and is properly checked for
> unknown values.

Thanks for the patch! So I was actually thinking about going to completely
fd-based syscall like ioctl(2) and then we don't have to worry about lookup
flags or paths at all. What do people thing about attached patch?

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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