From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions [ver #2]
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:23:43 +0100
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> The cost of adding a syscall is much smaller than adding all the wanking
> in your system call.

Simply, if inelegantly put.

David