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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:21:24 +0000
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> But fstat() is really different operation to stat() -- tell me about
> my file descriptor vs. tell me about this filename, and ptrace (and
> some "security" solutions) might want to allow one but disallow the
> second. I'd not group them together..

You can argue it either way.  I think Linus came down on the side of combining
them.

David