Re: Attempt at "stat light" implementation

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >Once you have fine-grained selection of stat fields - it's natural to
> >ask why not allow _additional_ stat fields in an future-extensible
> >fashion?  A few things would be handy sometimes, such as inode
> >generation number, modification generation number (to detect changes
> >across reboots), and extra flags indicating COW or other properties.
> 
> That's quite an interesting thought...  until you run out of flags, the 
> stat structure becomes a bit more flexible.

I suspect at least one other unix or unix-like OS has done this
already, and it might be worth copying the interface.  But none come to
mind.

(I'm not counting DJGPP on MS-DOS ;-)

-- Jamie