From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:58:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46314AAD.9010300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46314A08.9000209@redhat.com>
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.
It's pretty ugly either way :-/
>> 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?
Primarily to let a backup program restore the full state of the filesystem.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-27 0:58 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
2007-04-27 0:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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