Hello Andreas, On 04/21/2017 08:16 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Apr 21, 2017, at 7:13 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 04/21/2017 03:01 PM, David Howells wrote: >>> Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> (3) There's no problem with asking for extra bits, even if the running >>> kerneldoes not support them, because the kernel tells you in its >>> response what fields it actually gave you. >> >> It's this piece that I overlooked. Makes sense, of course. >> Sorry for the noise! > > I agree with David that we don't want to return an error if the application > asks for more bits than the kernel supports, otherwise the interface would > be useless. Yes, it's clear to me now. > Maybe this implies that this needs to be explained more clearly in the > statx man page? Precisely; my thought also. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
