>But now that glibc is around, it should be pretty easy to add this field
>to struct stat, and then add the chflags system call.
And what will this do to code that's already built and shipping?
It seems like promiscuously adding records to a published structure
is a recipe for Bad Things.
A chflags() call that takes a union of special flags would be a much
less destructive way of adding the new functionality.
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david parsons \bi/ Plus it will be a lot easier to add to libc 4.8.2
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