Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
- From: David Howells <dhowells redhat com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert cs ucla edu>
- Cc: linux-cifs vger kernel org, linux-nfs vger kernel org, nautilus-list gnome org, libc-alpha sourceware org, kfm-devel kde org, Roland McGrath <roland hack frob com>, wine-devel winehq org, samba-technical lists samba org, dhowells redhat com, linux-api vger kernel org, linux-fsdevel vger kernel org, linux-ext4 vger kernel org
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:04:07 +0100
Paul Eggert <eggert cs ucla edu> wrote:
> On 04/19/2012 09:32 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I have no comment on the functionality. But "xstat" is probably a poor
> > choice of name.
>
> In AIX 7.1 the (similar) function is called statxat instead of xstat.
> The API isn't exactly the same, but it's the same basic idea.
> Might be worth looking at, not merely to see whether the API
> should be the same, but also to borrow good ideas even if not.
>
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/statx.htm
Interesting. I wasn't intending to provide both statx() and statxat()
variants, just the latter, in which case I'd've though that -at suffix is
redundant.
I note that they split their time fields into separate seconds and ns fields,
presumably for better packing.
David
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