Hi Oleg. On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:23:56AM +0400, Oleg Drokin (green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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. What if instead you add single additional fsatat() flag and check provided stat structure for the data user requested to get? I.e. if i_size is not zero, than user wants to get it, the same applies to all other fields. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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
