From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:55982 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933128AbdCaPth (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:49:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:49:31 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Layton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , "Darrick J. Wong" , Andreas Dilger , Eric Biggers , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , linux-fsdevel , xfs Subject: Re: statx manpage Message-ID: <20170331154931.GA7235@infradead.org> References: <20170327154003.GA5716@birch.djwong.org> <20170307050140.GA12946@infradead.org> <20170307000609.GG5280@birch.djwong.org> <10435.1488907375@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20170324205322.GA4986@gmail.com> <23715.1490631926@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20170327164628.GA15147@infradead.org> <1490641451.9691.4.camel@poochiereds.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1490641451.9691.4.camel@poochiereds.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > I think we just have to clearly document that that will not be the > case. If they really expect the field to be there, then they need to > set the bit in the "want" mask -- it's really as simple as that. If the usual local file systems set it but say NFS doesn't I will very much expect that people don't set the flag and create buggy programs a lot. An API that doesn't give you more than you ask for is a lot more obvious.