From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: statx manpage
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:49:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170331154931.GA7235@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1490641451.9691.4.camel@poochiereds.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-31 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-07 0:06 [PATCH] xfs: report crtime and attribute flags to statx Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-07 5:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-07 17:23 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-07 17:22 ` statx manpage David Howells
2017-03-07 18:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-07 18:39 ` David Howells
2017-03-07 18:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-07 18:55 ` David Howells
2017-03-07 21:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-03-07 22:55 ` Eric Biggers
2017-03-08 3:45 ` Eryu Guan
2017-03-08 9:24 ` David Howells
2017-03-08 15:26 ` Jeff Layton
2017-03-20 16:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-03-22 10:55 ` Jeff Layton
2017-03-08 9:41 ` David Howells
2017-03-10 5:01 ` Eric Biggers
2017-03-09 6:46 ` David Howells
2017-03-09 6:59 ` Eryu Guan
2017-03-09 6:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-09 14:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-09 7:45 ` David Howells
2017-03-24 20:53 ` Eric Biggers
2017-03-27 0:46 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-03-27 15:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-03-27 16:25 ` David Howells
2017-03-27 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-27 19:04 ` Jeff Layton
2017-03-28 19:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2017-03-28 20:22 ` Jeff Layton
2017-03-31 15:49 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-03-27 18:57 ` David Howells
2017-03-28 0:13 ` [PATCH] Add initial batch of statx() LTP tests David Howells
2017-03-28 6:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-28 8:23 ` David Howells
2017-03-27 9:55 ` statx manpage David Howells
2017-03-31 15:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-31 16:43 ` David Howells
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