Re: [PATCH 0/2] openat2: minor uapi cleanups

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Thu Dec 19 2019 - 06:20:03 EST


On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 09:55:28PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> While openat2(2) is still not yet in Linus's tree, we can take this
> opportunity to iron out some small warts that weren't noticed earlier:
>
> * A fix was suggested by Florian Weimer, to separate the openat2
> definitions so glibc can use the header directly. I've put the
> maintainership under VFS but let me know if you'd prefer it belong
> ot the fcntl folks.
>
> * Having heterogenous field sizes in an extensible struct results in
> "padding hole" problems when adding new fields (in addition the
> correct error to use for non-zero padding isn't entirely clear ).
> The simplest solution is to just copy clone(3)'s model -- always use
> u64s. It will waste a little more space in the struct, but it
> removes a possible future headache.

Am I imagining things or did I get the same patch series twice?

Christian