Re: [PATCH 8/8] statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct statx

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Apr 04 2017 - 03:13:01 EST


On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 06:32:17PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Include a mask in struct stat to indicate which bits of stx_attributes the
> filesystem actually supports.

What's the use case for this?