From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:27:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161118212725.GA31101@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27040.1479464944@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:29:04AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> > > (13) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value. These could be translated to BSD's st_flags.
> > > Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4
> > > define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel
> > > may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too).
> >
> > And we now also have FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR that extends the flags
> > and information userspace can get from filesystems.
>
> Btw, can you point me at the manpage that defines the fsxattr struct and its
> flags?
man xfsctl is the original source. However, ....
> Also, ioctl_list(2) should probably include FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR.
... I thought patches had been sent to Michael to document them at
the VFS ioctl level. maybe I confused it with something else.....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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[not found] ` <147938969703.13574.10295364502230379833.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
2016-11-17 15:10 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call Michael Kerrisk
2016-11-17 16:33 ` David Howells
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[not found] ` <2D8B8AAF-2016-45BD-9D70-A532DDDB23D2-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-18 8:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells
[not found] ` <25517.1479459564-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-18 9:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-18 10:29 ` David Howells
2016-11-18 21:27 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-11-18 21:48 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <9903.1479505701-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-18 22:17 ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-19 10:21 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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