Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759550AbXEJToq (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 15:44:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755849AbXEJTok (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 15:44:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45763 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754378AbXEJTok (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 15:44:40 -0400 Message-ID: <46437613.4060407@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:44:19 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig , Ulrich Drepper , Neil Brown , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation References: <200704262249.l3QMn5C2021588@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <17969.22692.855242.359680@notabene.brown> <46315C61.30001@redhat.com> <464363DC.7060607@redhat.com> <20070510185226.GA1458@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070510185226.GA1458@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 20 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > E.g. > > long foofs_pathconf { > [_PC_LINK_MAX] = 16384, > [_PC_2_SYMLINKS] = 1, In general I agree. But what do you do for network filesystems? Maybe we'll have a network filesystem protocol which allows to query the remote server about the underlying filesystem. Then the return value is dynamic and it's the maximum (coarsest granularity) of the network filesystem itself and the underlying filesystem. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - 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/