Re: [PATCH] statx: reject unknown flags when using NULL path

From
David Howells <hidden>
Date
2017-03-31 15:51:28
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Reply to
Al Viro, 2017-03-31
Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
can we get this in please?  It would be sad to grow another syscall
with an unchecked flags argument..
Applied, will be in tonight pull request...
I'm not convinced that this is right.  I'm more inclined to let any flag be
passed that is available to statx() with a filename and just mask off the
bits before handing them on.

David
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