Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:56:17 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Attempt at "stat light" implementation |
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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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