Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753382Ab2HaMr7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:47:59 -0400 Received: from mail02-md.ns.itscom.net ([175.177.155.112]:57934 "EHLO mail02-md.ns.itscom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752841Ab2HaMr5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:47:57 -0400 From: "J. R. Okajima" Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] overlayfs: add statfs support To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Miklos Szeredi , viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, apw@canonical.com, nbd@openwrt.org, neilb@suse.de, hramrach@centrum.cz, jordipujolp@gmail.com, ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, ricwheeler@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, hpj@urpla.net, sedat.dilek@googlemail.com, penberg@kernel.org, goran.cetusic@gmail.com, romain@orebokech.com In-Reply-To: <1346306092.17040.3.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> References: <1345045700-9062-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <1345045700-9062-6-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <20120817182051.GC29217@decadent.org.uk> <87d32971s3.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <1346306092.17040.3.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:47:53 +0900 Message-ID: <7965.1346417273@jrobl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 19 Ben Hutchings: > If I'm not mistaken, glibc uses it to implement pathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX), > which may be used by applications in conjunction with readdir_r(). I agree pathconf(3) depends upon the filesystem type. I've posted about the _PC_LINK_MAX and statfs(2). See my past post and its thread in detail. [RFC 0/5] pathconf(3) with _PC_LINK_MAX J. R. Okajima -- 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/