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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:59:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C29C3F9.7030805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100629085759.GN28364@laptop>

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On 06/29/2010 01:57 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
> ST_VALID is required to differentiate between no flags, and
> flags field unsupported of course.

Not needed if a new syscall would be used.


> At least from 2.4.0 does memset it. 2.2.26 does not. Can you
> live with that?

We still support building glibc for everything from linux 2.0 on, at
least for x86.  I really have no idea whether such old kernels are still
in use and if yes, whether userland gets updated.  I wouldn't have a
problem with bumping the minimum required kernel version.

- -- 
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-26  9:35 [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64) Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26  9:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-26 13:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26 13:16     ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-26 12:55 ` Neil Brown
2010-06-26 13:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27  7:55 ` Tao Ma
2010-06-27  9:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 18:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-28 19:52   ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-28 20:07     ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-29  8:57     ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-29  9:25       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-29  9:59       ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2010-06-29 11:05         ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-29 12:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-07 16:53 Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 17:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-07-07 17:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 17:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 17:55       ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-07 18:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 18:50           ` Nick Piggin
2010-07-07 19:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-18  6:41               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-18 17:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 18:16       ` Nick Piggin

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