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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: Attempt at "stat light" implementation
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:47:29 -0400
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Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Yes, no additional method please.  Adding the mask argument to getattr
> is a pretty trivial search and replace.

Agreed.  That was my reaction to the patch (Oleg's or Mark's, I forget) 
that added a new method.

	Jeff