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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available [ver #3]
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:27:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6825.1479972453@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D1A5E76A-5739-42FE-A451-B49CD1699DB0@dilger.ca>

Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> wrote:

> > +		case S_IFCHR:	printf(" character special file\n");	ft = 'c'; break;
> 
> This will overflow 80 columns.  Could use just "character special"?
> 
> > +		case S_IFDIR:	printf(" directory\n");			ft = 'd'; break;
> > +		case S_IFBLK:	printf(" block special file\n");	ft = 'b'; break;
> > +		case S_IFREG:	printf(" regular file\n");		ft = '-'; break;
> > +		case S_IFLNK:	printf(" symbolic link\n");		ft = 'l'; break;
> 
> Having these all as single-word items would make it easier to parse for
> test programs.  Same with "IO Block:" -> "Blocksize:".  Not a huge deal.

Try doing "stat /dev/null".

David

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-24  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23  0:55 [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call [ver #3] David Howells
2016-11-23  0:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available " David Howells
2016-11-23  8:37   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-11-23 22:42     ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-23 22:57     ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-24  8:13       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-11-24  2:08   ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-24  7:27     ` David Howells [this message]
2016-12-04  4:00   ` Al Viro
2016-12-04  4:38   ` Al Viro
2016-12-04 16:05     ` Al Viro
2016-12-05 15:37       ` David Howells
2016-12-04 17:33     ` Al Viro
2016-12-05 14:49       ` Miklos Szeredi
2016-11-23  0:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes " David Howells
2016-11-23 17:59   ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-23  0:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] statx: NFS: " David Howells
2016-11-23  0:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: " David Howells
2016-11-24  2:06   ` Andreas Dilger

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