From: Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120426182401.B246E2C0EA@topped-with-meat.com> References: <4F9088D6.9020203@cs.ucla.edu> <20120419140558.17272.74360.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20120419163238.61D382C0DF@topped-with-meat.com> <19638.1335449047@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Paul Eggert , linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, samba-technical-w/Ol4Ecudpl8XjKLYN78aQ@public.gmane.org, linux-ext4-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, wine-devel-5vRYHf7vrtgdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, kfm-devel-RoXCvvDuEio@public.gmane.org, nautilus-list-rDKQcyrBJuzYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, libc-alpha-9JcytcrH/bA+uJoB2kUjGw@public.gmane.org To: David Howells Return-path: In-Reply-To: David Howells's message of Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:04:07 +0100 <19638.1335449047-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org > Interesting. I wasn't intending to provide both statx() and statxat() > variants, just the latter, in which case I'd've though that -at suffix is > redundant. It's certainly fine to provide only *at flavors for any new syscall, IMHO. The * case is always just a simple degenerate case of *at, and libc can trivially provide the simpler user API as well using the *at syscall. But please keep the uniformity that everything taking a descriptor and AT_* flags is named *at. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html