Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This is reworked Mark Fasheh's patch + my earlier patch.
> It allows one to specify which specific struct stat fields are needed
> out of the fstatat call, and also a request to obtain most uptodate
> information for inode (for NFS mostly).
>
> Also it adds AT_STAT_SELF flag to mean that the stat should be executed not
> on a path, but on the passed filedecriptor itself.
>
> A first real kernel user for this added in loop block driver that does
> not care about size or anything else besides rdev and inode number.
>
> I see various architectures replicate bits of vfs_*stat* in some compat
> code, I am not sure if we need to update those as well or not.
>
> This patch does away with all the extra syscalls.
linux-kernel should be included in the discussion of this syscall.
Jeff
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> linux-kernel should be included in the discussion of this syscall.
Would it be possible to automatically forward all posts from -fsdevel,
and possibly other lists, to linux-kernel?
The rationale is that linux-kernel is a collection of all subtopics,
it's already CC-d on most threads.
Thanks,
Miklos
From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:56:16 +0200
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> linux-kernel should be included in the discussion of this syscall.
>
> Would it be possible to automatically forward all posts from -fsdevel,
> and possibly other lists, to linux-kernel?
>
> The rationale is that linux-kernel is a collection of all subtopics,
> it's already CC-d on most threads.
No.