Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Honestly I think this really matters on the amount of 'emulation' we > need - if it's just adding a new flag that can be trivially generated > in the syscall stub in userland that's probably fine, but if we have > actually differing semantics (like the stat weak attributes) I'd rather > have a properly documented syscall. If we otherwise need to rewrite > whole structures I'd much rather do that in kernel space. I very much agree. > And to get back to stat: if would be really useful to coordinate the > new one with glibc so that we don't end up with two different stat > structures again like we do for a lot of platforms at the moment. I've tried reaching out to them and others, but no one responded. 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
