- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:32:38 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, samba-technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wine-devel@xxxxxxxxxx, kfm-devel@xxxxxxx, nautilus-list@xxxxxxxxx, linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Emacs: ballast for RAM.
- In-reply-to: David Howells's message of Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:05:58 +0100 <20120419140558.17272.74360.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
- References: <20120419140558.17272.74360.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
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
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