From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] statxat: Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:40:34 -0800 Message-ID: <20131127114034.GA13491@infradead.org> References: <20131112173518.25813.67568.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20131112173526.25813.85546.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131112173526.25813.85546.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: David Howells Cc: viro-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org, linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, libc-alpha-9JcytcrH/bA+uJoB2kUjGw@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, andreas.gruenbacher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, samba-technical-w/Ol4Ecudpl8XjKLYN78aQ@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:35:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes so that they can be retrieved (or > even altered) using the FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS ioctl and read using statxat(). As mentioned before we're running out of these flags and we already have a horrible mash up between filesystem specific implementation details an generally useful ones, so if you want to add them to a stat-like call you better define an entirely new namespaces. Also each of the added ones needs a good justification either way.