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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat implementation
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 18:01:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4643C071.608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510185226.GA1458@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> I'd be happy to have them.  While it's not the nicest API in the world
> it's in Posix and we have to support it at the library level, so we
> should better get it right.
> 
> I'd like to avoid having a big swithc statement in every filesystem,
> though, instead of we should have a table-driven approach instead
> where each filesystem defines one table (or multiple ones when it
> supports subtypes with different limits) and just sets a pointer in
> the superblock to it.
> 

This is starting to sound an awful lot like statfs().  Maybe we could
create a new statfs call which takes a buffer size input (so that we can
add new fields as time goes on) and which returns the necessary information?

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11  1:05 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
2007-05-11  1:01         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-11  2:14       ` Neil Brown

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