Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754372Ab0F3I74 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:59:56 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:17133 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753939Ab0F3I7y (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:59:54 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <201006301020.53978.arnd@arndb.de> References: <201006301020.53978.arnd@arndb.de> <20100629200259.23196.81509.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20100629200315.23196.68742.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, smfrench@gmail.com, jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, sjayaraman@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:59:41 +0100 Message-ID: <25553.1277888381@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 532 Lines: 14 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Do we actually need the fxstat variant? IIRC, some *at syscalls just > operate on dfd when filename==NULL, which would be trivial to do here. user_path_at() doesn't seem to work like that, so fstatat() doesn't. It's a possibility though. David -- 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/