Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation

Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-10T18:37:32Z

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote:
>> Does it also specify how to find out what granularity is used by the
>> filesystem? I had a need for this just recently and couldn't see any
>> way to extract it.
>
> That's still on the table. We might end up with an fpathconf() solution.

OK, the pathconf()-based solution will most probably be in the next
POSIX spec.

Now, somebody has to provide a way to get to this information. The
kernel does not export it so far. Is it finally time to break down and
allow pathconf() and fpathconf() syscalls into the kernel?

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