Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934920AbdDZWEF (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:04:05 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f44.google.com ([209.85.214.44]:35394 "EHLO mail-it0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932261AbdDZWDv (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:03:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <149324135581.24512.17200609423997054366.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <149324135581.24512.17200609423997054366.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:03:50 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: DOsR0GWWP5bNjNYOTcSOUOeLHPM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH To: David Howells Cc: Al Viro , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Linux API , Eric Sandeen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , fstests@vger.kernel.org, Michael Kerrisk , linux-fsdevel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 368 Lines: 12 On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells 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