From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:29:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27040.1479464944@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161117234047.GE28177@dastard>
Dave Chinner <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org> 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?
Also, ioctl_list(2) should probably include FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR.
David
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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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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 [this message]
2016-11-18 21:27 ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-18 21:48 ` David Howells
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2016-11-18 22:17 ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-19 10:21 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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