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Re: [PATCH 1/3] statxat: Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- To: David Howells <dhowells at redhat dot com>
- Cc: viro at ZenIV dot linux dot org dot uk, linux-cifs at vger dot kernel dot org, linux-nfs at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, linux-api at vger dot kernel dot org, andreas dot gruenbacher at gmail dot com, samba-technical at lists dot samba dot org, linux-fsdevel at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:40:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] statxat: Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:35:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes so that they can be retrieved (or
> even altered) using the FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS ioctl and read using statxat().
As mentioned before we're running out of these flags and we already have
a horrible mash up between filesystem specific implementation details
an generally useful ones, so if you want to add them to a stat-like
call you better define an entirely new namespaces.
Also each of the added ones needs a good justification either way.