Re: [PATCH 02/18] fsinfo: Add fsinfo() syscall to query filesystem information [ver #21]

2020-08-27 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello David, On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 15:37, David Howells wrote: > > Add a system call to allow filesystem information to be queried. A request > value can be given to indicate the desired attribute. Support is provided > for enumerating multi-value attributes. Do we have an up to date manual

Re: [PATCH 02/18] fsinfo: Add fsinfo() syscall to query filesystem information [ver #21]

2020-08-04 Thread David Howells
Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > __u32 Mth; > > The Mth field seems to be unused in this patchset. Since the struct is > extensible, I guess there's no point in adding it now. Yeah - I was using it to index through the server address lists for network filesystems (ie. the Mth address

Re: [PATCH 02/18] fsinfo: Add fsinfo() syscall to query filesystem information [ver #21]

2020-08-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:36:42PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Add a system call to allow filesystem information to be queried. A request > value can be given to indicate the desired attribute. Support is provided > for enumerating multi-value attributes. > > === > NEW SYSTEM CALL

[PATCH 02/18] fsinfo: Add fsinfo() syscall to query filesystem information [ver #21]

2020-08-03 Thread David Howells
Add a system call to allow filesystem information to be queried. A request value can be given to indicate the desired attribute. Support is provided for enumerating multi-value attributes. === NEW SYSTEM CALL === The new system call looks like: int ret =