From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Unchecked flags in statx(2) [Should be fixed before 4.11-final?]
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:13:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d662912-5cbe-a171-2273-50bbbedbc880@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18703.1492779716@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On 04/21/2017 03:01 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> (3) There's no problem with asking for extra bits, even if the running kernel
> does not support them, because the kernel tells you in its response what
> fields it actually gave you.
It's this piece that I overlooked. Makes sense, of course.
Sorry for the noise!
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-21 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-21 12:14 Unchecked flags in statx(2) [Should be fixed before 4.11-final?] Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2017-04-21 12:28 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2017-04-21 12:41 ` David Howells
2017-04-21 12:47 ` David Howells
2017-04-21 13:01 ` David Howells
2017-04-21 13:13 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2017-04-21 18:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-04-21 19:19 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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