Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [!] NOTE: This breaks UAPI introduced in 4.11-rc1.

Ugh.

I'm, applying this now, so that we don't end up with a released kernel
that supports the NULL filename thing.

I'm not happy about the timing though. And I hope nobody started using
statx() outside of tests.

                 Linus