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Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:26:36 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote:
>> Does it also specify how to find out what granularity is used by the
>> filesystem?  I had a need for this just recently and couldn't see any
>> way to extract it.
> 
> That's still on the table.  We might end up with an fpathconf() solution.

OK, the pathconf()-based solution will most probably be in the next 
POSIX spec.

Now, somebody has to provide a way to get to this information.  The 
kernel does not export it so far.  Is it finally time to break down and 
allow pathconf() and fpathconf() syscalls into the kernel?

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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