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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Apr 12 2017 - 11:12:49 EST


On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 12:12:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

ping!