Re: [PATCH 1/3] statxat: Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 05:35:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote:

Provide IOC flags for Windows fs attributes so that they can be retrieved (or
even altered) using the FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS ioctl and read using statxat().

As mentioned before we're running out of these flags and we already have
a horrible mash up between filesystem specific implementation details
an generally useful ones, so if you want to add them to a stat-like
call you better define an entirely new namespaces.

Also each of the added ones needs a good justification either way.