Re: [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64)

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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 02:59:21AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> On 06/29/2010 01:57 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > ST_VALID is required to differentiate between no flags, and
> > flags field unsupported of course.
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> Not needed if a new syscall would be used.

True, but we have the spare fields.


> > At least from 2.4.0 does memset it. 2.2.26 does not. Can you
> > live with that?
> 
> We still support building glibc for everything from linux 2.0 on, at
> least for x86.  I really have no idea whether such old kernels are still
> in use and if yes, whether userland gets updated.  I wouldn't have a
> problem with bumping the minimum required kernel version.

I guess most would assume a 2.6 kernel nowadays? With either the
new syscall or Christoph's patch, you need to keep the fallback
around too.


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