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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:29:04AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> > > (13) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value. These could be translated to BSD's st_flags.
> > > Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4
> > > define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel
> > > may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too).
> >
> > And we now also have FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR that extends the flags
> > and information userspace can get from filesystems.
>
> Btw, can you point me at the manpage that defines the fsxattr struct and its
> flags?

man xfsctl is the original source. However, ....

> Also, ioctl_list(2) should probably include FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR.

... I thought patches had been sent to Michael to document them at
the VFS ioctl level. maybe I confused it with something else.....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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