On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 01:38:05PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:07:58PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Look: there are other good reasons to change struct stat and I'm not too
> > happy about doing it in $BIGNUM steps, each resulting in new triple of
> > syscalls. If we are going to do that at all we'ld better do it at once.
>
> Yes, there are many reasons to change struct stat,
> and it is unlikely that we can do it all at once.
> But we only need 3 more syscalls once - they'll suffice forever.
Before you jump once more on creating new things,
what is wrong with *stat64() syscalls introduced
by the LFS extensions ?
(Aside of glibc 2.0 not going far enough and setting all scalar
values to be 64 bit ones.. For that matter, file-id keys might
need 128 bit tokens at some filesystems.)
/Matti Aarnio
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