On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mar 28, 2017, at 8:38 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Here are my current changes to Eric's statx interface patch. I've made it >> analoguous to the stat command and so it only does statx-of-fd. >> >> I've made the "-m" flag able to take the words "basic" and "all" in >> preference to a number and able to take an octal or hex number as an >> alternative too. >> >> I've dropped the -A and -L flags since it no longer passes a path over. >> >> Finally, I've added a -c flag that causes an fstat() to be done as well and >> the buffers compared as a consistency check. > > It probably makes sense to use "-C" to avoid confusion with xfs_io's "-c" > option, and also the "stat -c" option to dump only specific fields (which > may be useful to add at some point in the future as well). > I'm afraid its not better for avoiding confusion. -C already taken as well for new "oneshot commands"... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
