Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall?

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jul 06 2010 - 22:29:34 EST


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm still waiting for Uli if he really insists on new syscall vectors
> for the same structure.  Using that one ST_VALID bit seems a lot easier
> to me.

Umm. Uli doesn't get to choose kernel system call conventions. It
matters not one whit whether he insists on new system calls or not,
it's not going to happen.

Linus
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