Oleg Drokin wrote:
Hello! This is reworked Mark Fasheh's patch + my earlier patch. It allows one to specify which specific struct stat fields are needed out of the fstatat call, and also a request to obtain most uptodate information for inode (for NFS mostly). Also it adds AT_STAT_SELF flag to mean that the stat should be executed not on a path, but on the passed filedecriptor itself. A first real kernel user for this added in loop block driver that does not care about size or anything else besides rdev and inode number. I see various architectures replicate bits of vfs_*stat* in some compat code, I am not sure if we need to update those as well or not. This patch does away with all the extra syscalls.
linux-kernel should be included in the discussion of this syscall. Jeff -- 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
