Re: [PATCH 4/7] xfs: Implement fallocate query support mode

Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-19T20:37:23Z

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 09:17:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> We have a significant backlog, but I don't expect opposition to patches
> implementing syscall wrappers which are just slightly generic (and
> pathconfat should really be fine).
>
> Technically, pathconfat might be tricky to maintain if it's expected to be a
> variadic dispatcher function, and the accompanying UAPI header isn't very
> clean.

(f)pathconf is defined as:

long fpathconf(int fd, int name);
long pathconf(const char *path, int name);

so there really shouldn't be any issue.