Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall

From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall
Date	2017-03-16 10:50 +0100
Message-ID	<tlAcG-4Na-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<tkzsm-1TD-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <tlpAC-5Hb-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:26 PM, James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> wrote:
> On 13 March 2017 at 14:45, Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> wrote:

>>  #undef __NR_syscalls
>> -#define __NR_syscalls 291
>> +#define __NR_syscalls 292
>
> Out of interest, anybody know OTOH which other stat syscalls statx
> supersedes (such that they could at some point be disabled by default
> in asm-generic for new arches, and implemented in userspace)?

It should replace the entire stat family {old,new,}{f,}stat{at,}{64,}, but not
the {f,}statfs{64,} family, which will eventually get another replacement.

      Arnd

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> - 2017-03-15 23:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-16 10:50 +0100

csiph-web