On 27 April 2017 at 00:03, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Agreed on the timing. Late review on my part didn't help. But, also, David's fix is not quite right. I will send a patch. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/