From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:32:38 -0700 (PDT)
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I have no comment on the functionality.  But "xstat" is probably a poor
choice of name.  There is precedent for that function name with different
meaning in the userland APIs.  (It's a moderately useless meaning inherited
from SVR4, but regardless overloading a name previously used is unwise.)


Thanks,
Roland