From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:53:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <149324135581.24512.17200609423997054366.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Reply-To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Howells , Al Viro , linux-man , Linux API , Eric Sandeen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , fstests , linux-fsdevel , Michael Kerrisk , Christoph Hellwig List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On 27 April 2017 at 00:03, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells wrote: >> [!] NOTE: This breaks UAPI introduced in 4.11-rc1. > > Ugh. > > I'm, applying this now, so that we don't end up with a released kernel > that supports the NULL filename thing. > > I'm not happy about the timing though. And I hope nobody started using > statx() outside of tests. Agreed on the timing. Late review on my part didn't help. But, also, David's fix is not quite right. I will send a patch. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html