From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755308AbXD0Azy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:55:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755309AbXD0Azx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:55:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44478 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755308AbXD0Azw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:55:52 -0400 Message-ID: <46314A08.9000209@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:55:36 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation References: <200704262249.l3QMn5C2021588@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070426162530.bc30a1bb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46313F99.6080402@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <46313F99.6080402@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig703AAFA77841E281E15EFAED" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig703AAFA77841E281E15EFAED Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm a bit leery of abusing the timespec value like this, though. A > flags field seem like it would be cleaner. It's ugly. Then you have the parameter, which might have nice valid values, and they get ignored. I thought about it when this was discussed in the working group and thought it's a toss up. > Something else... if we're dickering with these interfaces, shouldn't w= e > allow setting atime as well? Why? To allow somebody to hide her/his tracks? --=20 =E2=9E=A7 Ulrich Drepper =E2=9E=A7 Red Hat, Inc. =E2=9E=A7 444 Castro St = =E2=9E=A7 Mountain View, CA =E2=9D=96 --------------enig703AAFA77841E281E15EFAED Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMUoI2ijCOnn/RHQRAr2NAJoDUzgRrloXp/M5MkRCDQawNWA2hgCfRdet FRoGOWhlk28tzgdtAynnSNE= =BKZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig703AAFA77841E281E15EFAED--