Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available

From	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
Date	2016-11-19 11:30 +0100
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Hi Dave,

[Best to CC me when I'm mentioned in the discussion. I only caught
this by chance.]

On 18 November 2016 at 23:17, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 09:48:21PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>> Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > Btw, can you point me at the manpage that defines the fsxattr struct and its
>> > > flags?
>> >
>> > man xfsctl is the original source. However, ....
>>
>>       warthog>man xfsctl
>>       No manual entry for xfsctl
>>
>> This should be in the kernel manpages repo since it's kernel UAPI.
>
> "original source" is where the API came from - that's
> XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR - and xfsctl from xfsprogs is where that was
> documented. That page documents a bunch of other XFS specific
> ioctls, too, so it is appropriately located.
>
> Like I said, I thought patches had been sent to Michael to lift the
> FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR documentation from this page into the official
> linux man pages package. If not, that can be chased up separately,
> but the XFS ioctl man page certainly does not belong there.

No patches for FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR documentation came to man-pages, as
far as I know. I'll be happy to take them.

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

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[RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 15:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) - 2016-11-17 21:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 03:50 +0100
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> - 2016-11-18 05:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-18 14:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 14:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/4] statx: NFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 04:40 +0100
  [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-17 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 09:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: Return enhanced file attributes David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 09:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-17 19:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 00:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 04:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 11:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 23:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-19 00:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-19 23:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-22 11:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-22 15:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-22 22:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-21 15:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-21 21:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> - 2016-11-18 18:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 19:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 20:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 22:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 23:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 11:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 22:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 22:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-18 23:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> - 2016-11-19 11:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 09:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info  available Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 13:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 10:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> - 2016-11-18 10:30 +0100

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