- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:24:01 -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 15:04:07 +0100 <19638.1335449047@redhat.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>
> 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
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