From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, smfrench@gmail.com,
jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, sjayaraman@suse.de,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #2]
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:55:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25470.1277888151@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006301030.52235.arnd@arndb.de>
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> I think it would be better to leave the structure as write-only from
> the kernel
Why?
> and pass the query_flags and struct_version as syscall arguments, though it
> makes sense to store them in the result as well.
The problem with that is that the number of syscall arguments is limited, and
there is no SYSCALL_DEFINE7.
On the other hand, I could make a separate argument block struct and pass a
pointer to it...
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-30 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-30 1:16 [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions [ver #2] David Howells
2010-06-30 1:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const " David Howells
2010-06-30 1:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] AFS: Use i_generation not i_version for the vnode uniquifier " David Howells
2010-06-30 1:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available " David Howells
2010-06-30 1:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2010-06-30 9:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 9:47 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 2:32 ` Nicholas Miell
2010-06-30 8:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 8:55 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-06-30 9:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 10:01 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 11:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 12:14 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 12:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 9:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 10:22 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 11:04 ` [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions " Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 12:05 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 12:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 13:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 14:05 ` Jeff Layton
2010-06-30 17:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30 12:23 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 21:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-30 23:15 ` David Howells
2010-06-30 23:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-01 0:15 ` David Howells
2010-07-01 3:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-01 4:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-07-01 8:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-05 23:52 ` Brad Boyer
2013-11-26 10:40 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-28 13:07 ` David Howells
2013-11-28 13:57 ` Jan Kara
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