On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 05:22:55PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This would be great to have in 4.11 together with the initial statx > > implementation. But until I see documentation and testcases for statx > > I don't really feel comfortable reviewing anything related to it. > > Well, since you asked for documentation, here's a manual page for you to > review:-) > > Note that as it isn't in glibc yet, I've left out all the > set-this-and-that-#define-to-make-it-appear stuff except where it is pertinent > to particular constants. I think we'll initially need to make this a section 2 page as libcs will take a while to pick things up. But in the end Michael will have to decide. Adding linux-man to the Cc list so that the right people are involved. Quoting the rendered page below: > Invoking statx(): This is an odd header for a man page. Usually this would start as DESCRIPTION (in bold). > [*] By absolute path. Odd way to enumerate in a man page - I'll leave it to the linux-man regulars to point out the right way, because I don't know it off-hand. > AT_EMPTY_PATH (since Linux 2.6.39) All these have been there since statx was added, so we can remove the annotation. > STATX_BASIC_STATS [The stuff in the normal stat struct] Please enumerate the actual fields. > STATX_ALL [All currently available stuff] How about "All currently available fields" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
