Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: > But fstat() is really different operation to stat() -- tell me about > my file descriptor vs. tell me about this filename, and ptrace (and > some "security" solutions) might want to allow one but disallow the > second. I'd not group them together.. You can argue it either way. I think Linus came down on the side of combining them. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html