Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2010 09:45:26 -0700 | Subject | Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall? | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 08:31:30AM +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote: >> For negative dentry, it should be supported as long as some >> standard/specification doesn't prohibit explicitly. So I still think >> statfs is the best place to implement _PC_LINK_MAX. > > If we're going to be changing statfs (or adding a new system call) > anyway, that does seem like a reasonable place to export this data > along with whatever else gets added. With the various things that > have been suggested, maybe we need something more like the stat > replacement that has been getting discussed with the room for some > larger optional fields and a way to request a specific set of fields.
Let's not overdesign things. Just do something like the attached patch, which is the obvious and straightforward thing to do.
Overdesigning is a disease. It's fundamentally wrong.
(Yeah, yeah,. the patch is untested, and doesn't actually _fill_ the new f_flags value, but that's left as a trivial exercise for the reader.)
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