Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

[Karel Zak]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:54:23PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > - improve fsinfo() to provide set (list) of the attributes by one call
> 
> That would be my preferred way.  I wouldn't want to let the user pin copies of
> state, and I wouldn't want to make open(O_PATH) do it automatically.

You can create cow object on first fsinfo() call, ideally add some
flags to control this behavior -- but you're right, this way is
complicated to implement and possibly dangerous.

I guess return some vector of attributes in one fsinfo() will be good
enough.

    Karel

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