From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 21:04:09 +0100 Message-ID: <2052.1462478649@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <1462477696.12332.17.camel@poochiereds.net> <20160429125736.23636.47874.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20160429125743.23636.85219.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20160504225601.GZ26977@dastard> <87shxxbc1e.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, NeilBrown , Dave Chinner , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Layton Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1462477696.12332.17.camel@poochiereds.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Jeff Layton wrote: > I don't see a real attack vector here either, but OTOH is there a > potential user of this at the moment? I'm not sure. BSD stat has an st_gen, so it's possible something out t= here will use it if it exists. > An earlier chunk of the patch description says: >=20 > (7) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS server= s > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0[Bernd Schubert].=C2=A0=C2=A0This was a= sked for but later deemed unnecessary > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0with the open-by-handle capability avai= lable >=20 > ...the last bit seems to indicate that we don't really need this > anyway, as most userland servers now work with filehandles from the > kernel. >=20 > Maybe leave it out for now? It can always be added later. Yeah... probably a good idea. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html