Hello!
On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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.
But having to open every dir (or take an extra intermediate lookup hit)
might be a bad thing at times unless we officially allow to use a
"magic"
"AT_FDCWD". What's your opinion on this?
Also we still need an fstat light version anyway, don't we?
Bye,
Oleg
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