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From: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>, Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
	 [email protected], [email protected],
	 [email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected],  [email protected],
	Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] statx NULL path support
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:46:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Sun, 2024-06-30 at 21:38 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Maybe it's time and declarate the idea to deprecate stat a failure
> and we just add it back to the new generic ABI syscalls?

> The idea to get rid of layers of backwards compatibility was a good one
> and mostly succeeded, but having to deal with not only remapping
> the structure but also the empty path issues sounds like it is worth
> to just add these pretty trivial system calls back and make everyones
> life easier?

Maybe but we'll need to make time_t 64-bit.  I.e. adding stat_time64,
fstat_time64, and fstatat_time64.  Or maybe just redesign a new syscall
which is a improved statx with empty path issue and remapping issue
solved.  (With statx itself it seems impossible to solve the remapping
issue...)

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

      reply	other threads:[~2024-07-01  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-25 11:00 [PATCH 0/2] statx NULL path support Mateusz Guzik
2024-06-25 11:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: add CLASS fd_raw Mateusz Guzik
2024-06-25 12:22   ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-06-25 13:13     ` Mateusz Guzik
2024-06-25 11:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] vfs: support statx(..., NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH, ...) Mateusz Guzik
2024-06-25 13:24   ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-06-25 13:28     ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-06-25 13:28     ` Mateusz Guzik
2024-06-25 14:09   ` Huacai Chen
2024-06-25 14:58     ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-06-30  1:40       ` Huacai Chen
2024-06-30  2:39         ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-06-30 13:18           ` Huacai Chen
2024-07-01 11:59           ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-07-02 15:36             ` Huacai Chen
2024-07-02 17:06               ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-07-03  4:30                 ` Huacai Chen
2024-07-03  8:45                 ` Christian Brauner
2024-07-03  9:35                   ` Huacai Chen
2024-07-03 10:07                     ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-03 16:31                   ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 16:54                     ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-03 17:09                       ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 17:30                         ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-03 17:40                           ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 17:54                             ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 18:14                               ` Christian Brauner
2024-07-03 18:39                                 ` Christian Brauner
2024-07-03 19:00                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 19:18                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 18:48                               ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-03 19:05                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 19:33                                   ` Christian Brauner
2024-07-03 19:52                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2024-07-03 18:44                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-07-03 19:55                               ` Christian Brauner
2024-07-03 17:11                       ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-04  2:38                       ` Huacai Chen
2024-07-04  3:23                         ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-04  4:14                           ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-04  5:55                       ` Florian Weimer
2024-07-04  6:02                         ` Xi Ruoyao
2024-07-01  4:38 ` [PATCH 0/2] statx NULL path support Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-01  6:46   ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]

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