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Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH
Date 2017-04-27 00:10 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> 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.

                 Linus

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[PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of  AT_EMPTY_PATH David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-04-26 23:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-04-27 00:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 14:00 +0200

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