From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:07:41 +0200
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On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, David Howells wrote:
> Implement a pair of new system calls to provide extended and further
> extensible stat functions.

Is there any chance we can use that chance and also add a field 

unsigned long long st_gen

to struct_ xstat? Inode generation numbers really would be useful for 
userspace NFS servers and some fuse filesystems.


Thanks,
Bernd
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