Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:39:18 +0100 | From | Jan-Simon Pendry <> | Subject | Re: Improving the Unix API |
| |
Alexander Viro wrote: > Proposed API on the Linux side being > int chflags(name, level, oldp, newp); where level is FL_VFS for generic > attirbutes (fs may map them on its own set) and FL_{UFS,EXT2,...} for raw > flags - corresponding filesystem is free to interpret the thing as it > likes and should set the generic attributes in the right way.
if linux introduces a different API (ie not just an extension of the existing bsd API) then please do *not* call it "chflags". it took years just to get over the bsd vs. svr4 gettimeofday() fiasco. btw, what's the proposed API for getting the current attribute set?
jan-simon.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |