Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/19/2012 09:32 AM, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I have no comment on the functionality. But "xstat" is probably a poor > > choice of name. > > In AIX 7.1 the (similar) function is called statxat instead of xstat. > The API isn't exactly the same, but it's the same basic idea. > Might be worth looking at, not merely to see whether the API > should be the same, but also to borrow good ideas even if not. > > http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/statx.htm Interesting. I wasn't intending to provide both statx() and statxat() variants, just the latter, in which case I'd've though that -at suffix is redundant. I note that they split their time fields into separate seconds and ns fields, presumably for better packing. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html