Re: [PATCH] statx: reject unknown flags when using NULL path

To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] statx: reject unknown flags when using NULL path
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:39:52 -0700
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>, mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>, Linux API <linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20170320174422.GA9304@infradead.org>
User-agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04)

Al, Linus:

can we get this in please?  It would be sad to grow another syscall
with an unchecked flags argument..

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