Andreas Dilger wrote:
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.
And if that application does not have a directory open, it is vulnerable
to races...
Jeff
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