[PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call

Roland McGrath roland-/Z5OmTQCD9xF6kxbq+BtvQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 26 19:22:02 BST 2012


> Roland McGrath <roland-/Z5OmTQCD9xF6kxbq+BtvQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > statx seems like a better family of names.  I also think it's worthwhile to
> > see if the interface can be made to more closely match the AIX precedent.
> 
> I'm not sure we can make Linux xstat (or whatever) match AIX statxat() very
> closely, at least from a syscall interface point of view.  

OK.  It was just worth a look.


Thanks,
Roland



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