Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/12] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available | From | David Howells <> | Date | Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:21:24 +0000 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> But fstat() is really different operation to stat() -- tell me about > my file descriptor vs. tell me about this filename, and ptrace (and > some "security" solutions) might want to allow one but disallow the > second. I'd not group them together..
You can argue it either way. I think Linus came down on the side of combining them.
David
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