From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:21:24 +0000 Message-ID: <4234.1450740084@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20151204120633.GI14427@amd> <20151120145422.18930.72662.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20151120145457.18930.79678.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-afs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151204120633.GI14427@amd> Content-ID: <6178.1449249670.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek 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