- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:22:02 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 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
- In-reply-to: David Howells's message of Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:16:00 +0100 <20173.1335449760@redhat.com>
- References: <20120419230556.A80392C0AF@topped-with-meat.com> <20120419140558.17272.74360.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20120419163238.61D382C0DF@topped-with-meat.com> <4F9088D6.9020203@cs.ucla.edu> <20173.1335449760@redhat.com>
> Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > statx seems like a better family of names. I also think it's worthwhile to
> > see if the interface can be made to more closely match the AIX precedent.
>
> I'm not sure we can make Linux xstat (or whatever) match AIX statxat() very
> closely, at least from a syscall interface point of view.
OK. It was just worth a look.
Thanks,
Roland
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
[Home]
[Linux USB Devel]
[Video for Linux]
[Linux Audio Users]
[Photo]
[Yosemite News]
[Yosemite Photos]
[Free Online Dating]
[Linux Kernel]
[Linux SCSI]
[XFree86]