Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752915Ab0FZOtk (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:49:40 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:48547 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752287Ab0FZOtj (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:49:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=H/9dO+cazUTdfGYPwFup2rIGq/+Lmk2YIWQKfYA6J2hHS0zQ5sYZ+KBSQQf2/EVSMg zDM93c4pJm/K/+PNj1OVs5IZHhv91iUOxyQHlYsmp5axBcai/3IRHIs2FqrvoUQHY2GK nSaBVEfar5OdDDJJAGQtfxRwZ3V/j/EVLQK7w= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100626093544.GA27715@infradead.org> References: <20100624131455.GA10441@laptop> <7897.1277531612@jrobl> <20100626093544.GA27715@infradead.org> From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:49:13 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall? To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "J. R. Okajima" , Nick Piggin , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Ulrich Drepper , Linus Torvalds 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: 504 Lines: 11 On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > That's really job for a pathconf system call that allows quering random > paramters. Linus has always objected to sysconf/pathconf-like syscalls. If you get it in I'm all for it. -- 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/