Re: [PATCH 1/3] VFS "stat light" out of fstatat, and fine grained flags

Re: [PATCH 1/3] VFS "stat light" out of fstatat, and fine grained flags

[Jeff Garzik]

Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>    This is reworked Mark Fasheh's patch + my earlier patch.
>    It allows one to specify which specific struct stat fields are needed
>    out of the fstatat call, and also a request to obtain most uptodate
>    information for inode (for NFS mostly).
> 
>    Also it adds AT_STAT_SELF flag to mean that the stat should be executed not
>    on a path, but on the passed filedecriptor itself.
> 
>    A first real kernel user for this added in loop block driver that does
>    not care about size or anything else besides rdev and inode number.
> 
>    I see various architectures replicate bits of vfs_*stat* in some compat
>    code, I am not sure if we need to update those as well or not.
> 
>    This patch does away with all the extra syscalls.


linux-kernel should be included in the discussion of this syscall.

	Jeff

forwarding -fsdevel to -kernel (was Re: [PATCH 1/3] VFS "stat ...) flags

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> linux-kernel should be included in the discussion of this syscall.

Would it be possible to automatically forward all posts from -fsdevel,
and possibly other lists, to linux-kernel?

The rationale is that linux-kernel is a collection of all subtopics,
it's already CC-d on most threads.

Thanks,
Miklos

Re: forwarding -fsdevel to -kernel (was Re: [PATCH 1/3] VFS "stat ...) flags

[David Miller]

From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:56:16 +0200

> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> linux-kernel should be included in the discussion of this syscall.
> 
> Would it be possible to automatically forward all posts from -fsdevel,
> and possibly other lists, to linux-kernel?
> 
> The rationale is that linux-kernel is a collection of all subtopics,
> it's already CC-d on most threads.

No.