On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > I think we just have to clearly document that that will not be the > case. If they really expect the field to be there, then they need to > set the bit in the "want" mask -- it's really as simple as that. If the usual local file systems set it but say NFS doesn't I will very much expect that people don't set the flag and create buggy programs a lot. An API that doesn't give you more than you ask for is a lot more obvious.
