Changing the interfaces of existing system calls to accept a NULL name which previously wasn't acceptable is not valid. Even for new system calls I think it's a bad idea. utimensat already has the most ugly code of all fs related system calls because of that. -- 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