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

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@infradead.org\>
- Date: 2017-03-31 15:39:54 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2017/03/119328
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fsdevel/2017/03/119331/t.md

```text
Al, Linus:

can we get this in please?  It would be sad to grow another syscall
with an unchecked flags argument..
```