RE: [PATCH] cifs: add IOCTL for QUERY_INFO passthrough to userspace

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Tom Talpey <ttalpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I think it's a mistake to name anything beginning with "cifs" in
> today's world. I suggest "smbfileinfo". But isn't this really just
> an extended version of stat(1)? Would a name in line with that
> usage be more appropriate?

Yes cifsstat or smbstat sounds a lot better indeed.

As for cifs vs smb, unfortunately "cifs" is used *everywhere* in the
cifs-utils package. The name, the utilities name, the man pages,
configure options, etc. I've tried to use SMB in the man page but it
makes the package a bit inconsistent. Ideally we should rename
everything but that's going to break a lot of stuff downstream.

Cheers,
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