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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Jun 26 2010 - 05:35:57 EST


On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:53:32PM +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
>
> Nick Piggin:
> > Is there anything more we should add here? Samba wants a capabilities
> > field, with things like sparse files, quotas, compression, encryption,
> > case preserving/sensitive.
>
> How about the max link count?
> There was a post in last December.
> See <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126008640210762&w=2> and its
> thread in detail.

That's really job for a pathconf system call that allows quering random
paramters.

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