From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #4]
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:35:55 +0100
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To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:

> > Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available,
> > including file creation time, inode version and data version where
> > available through the underlying filesystem.
> 
> Can you describe the expected atomicity requirements for the requests,
> please?

As for stat(), lstat() and fstat().

David