Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call

Roland McGrath <roland-/[email protected]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:22:02 -0700 (PDT)

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> Roland McGrath <roland-/[email protected]> 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