On 6/29/21 4:04 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Why don't we deprecate FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS and tell everyone to use > FS[GS]ETXATTR? They use the same code paths and vfs helpers now. How does "invent a new API and tell everybody to use that instead" address a concern about a least intrusive cleanup while maintaining binary compatibility with historical weirdness? (There IS a currently consistent API. It's the "32" versions. The surprise is that the non-32 versions don't do something different than the 32 versions, even though their definition implies they would.) Rob
