Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:52:36 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] |
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On Sunday 2010-07-18 10:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>Adding Uli to the Cc list to make sure this system call is useful >for glibc / can be exported by it. Otherwise it's rather pointless >to add it. > >> (6) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such as >> creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen) [Jeremy >> Allison, Bernd Schubert] > >How is this different from (1) and (4)?
(4), the inode generation number, need not be related to time.
>> (8) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A filesystem >> can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if that isn't >> available. > >What for?
Given xstat.otime=0, how would you determine whether the file is really tagged with a date of 1970, or whether it's just the fs which didnot store this kind of information.
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