Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932076AbbLDMGl (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:06:41 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:51331 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752441AbbLDMGj (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:06:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 13:06:33 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: David Howells Cc: arnd@arndb.de, linux-afs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Message-ID: <20151204120633.GI14427@amd> References: <20151120145422.18930.72662.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20151120145457.18930.79678.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151120145457.18930.79678.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 39 Hi! > =============== > NEW SYSTEM CALL > =============== > > The new system call is: > > int ret = statx(int dfd, > const char *filename, > unsigned int flags, > unsigned int mask, > struct statx *buffer); Should this be called stat5, so that when new, even more improved stat comes, it does not have to be called statxx? > The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query. There > is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be emulated with statx() by passing > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags. There is also no equivalent of fstat() as > that can be emulated by passing a NULL filename to statx() with the fd of > interest in dfd. Dunno. Of course you can multiplex everything. 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.. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/