On Apr 07, 2009 13:56 -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> I think the best way to do it is to just define additional flags for >> *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? Generally, any application doing tree traversal will have the parent directory open doing readdir() or getdents() so I don't think that is a huge problem. > Also we still need an fstat light version anyway, don't we? Possibly, yes, though it isn't a strict requirement. The man page reports that fstatat() is only for directories, but possibly it could also be used on regular files? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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
