LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:02:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070513210226.GC14030@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46437613.4060407@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:44:19PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >E.g.
> >
> >long foofs_pathconf {
> >	[_PC_LINK_MAX]		= 16384,
> >	[_PC_2_SYMLINKS]	= 1,
> 
> In general I agree.  But what do you do for network filesystems?  Maybe 
> we'll have a network filesystem protocol which allows to query the 
> remote server about the underlying filesystem.  Then the return value is 
> dynamic and it's the maximum (coarsest granularity) of the network 
> filesystem itself and the underlying filesystem.

You're right, we'll probably want a method call for it.  The table
approach might still be a nice helper for the normal case.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-26 22:49 Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-26 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-27  0:11   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:55     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  0:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  1:04         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27 23:05             ` David Lang
2007-04-27 23:30             ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 23:33               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-27  0:54   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27 15:27     ` Updated utimensat test program Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  1:57 ` [PATCH] utimensat implementation Neil Brown
2007-04-27  2:13   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-27  6:01     ` Neil Brown
2007-05-10 18:26     ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-10 18:52       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 19:44         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-13 21:02           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-11  1:01         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-11  2:14       ` Neil Brown

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20070513210226.GC14030@infradead.org \
    --to=hch@infradead.org \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=drepper@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=neilb@suse.de \
    --subject='Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation' \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).