Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: constify arguments to utime family of system calls

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:24:57PM -0500, Eric Biggers wrote:

> I feel it's a small improvement as it reduces the chance of bugs.  However, if
> you look at all the system calls, they are, in general, inconsistent about using
> 'const'.  So may be right that changing just a few isn't worthwhile.

It might very well be worth doing a full series, though - after all,
they are not hard to grep for ((COMPAT_)?SYSCALL_DEFINE[0-6] would get
you almost all of them, with rest consisting of weird shit in arch/*
that more often than not would be better off switched to SYSCALL_DEFINE).

The reason why it's worth doing completely or not at all is that partial
series will serve as an invitation to the alt.sex.masturbation.commit.count
crowd, with the usual quality of output...