From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
arnd@arndb.de, linux-afs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:15:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151124081519.GA16147@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564F4F4E.8060603@schaufler-ca.com>
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> How about relevant xattrs? SELinux context, ACL, that sort of thing.
> The fact that these are optional should be taken care of by (4).
Those are not simple, fixed size stat data and would make the system
call a giant mess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-24 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-20 14:54 [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells
2015-11-20 14:54 ` [PATCH 01/12] Ext4: Fix extended timestamp encoding and decoding David Howells
2015-11-24 17:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2015-11-24 19:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-24 20:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-29 2:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-29 21:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-30 14:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-30 14:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-30 14:46 ` Elmar Stellnberger
2015-11-26 15:28 ` David Howells
2015-11-20 14:54 ` [PATCH 02/12] statx: Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes David Howells
2015-11-24 19:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-11-26 15:35 ` David Howells
2015-11-26 22:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2015-11-26 16:01 ` David Howells
2015-11-20 14:54 ` [PATCH 03/12] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells
2015-11-24 20:21 ` Dave Chinner
2015-12-04 12:06 ` Pavel Machek
2015-12-21 23:21 ` David Howells
2015-11-20 14:55 ` [PATCH 04/12] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells
2015-11-20 14:55 ` [PATCH 05/12] statx: Ext4: " David Howells
2015-11-20 14:55 ` [PATCH 06/12] statx: NFS: " David Howells
2015-11-20 14:55 ` [PATCH 07/12] statx: CIFS: Return enhanced attributes David Howells
2015-11-24 17:33 ` Steve French
2015-11-24 17:34 ` Steve French
2015-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 08/12] fsinfo: Add a system call to make enhanced filesystem info available David Howells
2015-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 09/12] fsinfo: Ext4: Return information through the filesystem info syscall David Howells
2015-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 10/12] fsinfo: AFS: " David Howells
2015-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 11/12] fsinfo: NFS: " David Howells
2015-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 12/12] fsinfo: CIFS: " David Howells
2015-11-20 16:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/12] Enhanced file stat system call Martin Steigerwald
2015-11-24 8:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24 8:48 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-11-24 8:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-20 16:28 ` David Howells
2015-11-20 16:35 ` Martin Steigerwald
2015-11-25 17:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-11-25 19:30 ` Andreas Dilger
2015-11-20 16:50 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-11-24 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-11-24 14:43 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-11-24 16:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2015-11-24 8:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-26 15:19 ` David Howells
2015-11-26 22:06 ` Andreas Dilger
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