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SubjectRe: Attempt at "stat light" implementation
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >Once you have fine-grained selection of stat fields - it's natural to
> >ask why not allow _additional_ stat fields in an future-extensible
> >fashion? A few things would be handy sometimes, such as inode
> >generation number, modification generation number (to detect changes
> >across reboots), and extra flags indicating COW or other properties.
>
> That's quite an interesting thought... until you run out of flags, the
> stat structure becomes a bit more flexible.

I suspect at least one other unix or unix-like OS has done this
already, and it might be worth copying the interface. But none come to
mind.

(I'm not counting DJGPP on MS-DOS ;-)

-- Jamie


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