On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:23:56AM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > I quickly realized that perhaps we can use just one extra syscall for fstat, and stat/lstat could be > implemented as statat with just current cwd, though I do not know how desirable that is. > > Also I though that it would be kind of useful to allow the bitmask to be compatible with existing statat > flags usage so that we do not need a new statat. I think the best way to do it is to just define additional flags for the *statat family, that if present only request partial stat information. > Also perhaps the ->getattr just needs a prototype change to accept the flags argument and if the FS cares > about it - to use it, but I did not want to do this huge patch touching every FS right now if only to save > my time should this approach to be determined as undesirable for one reason or another, so > for now I add a ->getattr_light Yes, no additional method please. Adding the mask argument to getattr is a pretty trivial search and replace. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
