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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:55:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46314A08.9000209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46313F99.6080402@zytor.com>

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm a bit leery of abusing the timespec value like this, though.  A
> flags field seem like it would be cleaner.

It's ugly.  Then you have the parameter, which might have nice valid
values, and they get ignored.  I thought about it when this was
discussed in the working group and thought it's a toss up.


> Something else... if we're dickering with these interfaces, shouldn't we
> allow setting atime as well?

Why?  To allow somebody to hide her/his tracks?

-- 
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-26 22:49 [PATCH] utimensat implementation Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-26 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-27  0:11   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:55     ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2007-04-27  0:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  1:04         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27 23:05             ` David Lang
2007-04-27 23:30             ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:33               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:54   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 15:27     ` Updated utimensat test program Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  1:57 ` [PATCH] utimensat implementation Neil Brown
2007-04-27  2:13   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  6:01     ` Neil Brown
2007-05-10 18:26     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-10 18:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 19:44         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-13 21:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-11  1:01         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-11  2:14       ` Neil Brown

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