Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH

On 27 April 2017 at 00:03, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

[!] NOTE: This breaks UAPI introduced in 4.11-rc1.

Ugh.

I'm, applying this now, so that we don't end up with a released kernel
that supports the NULL filename thing.

I'm not happy about the timing though. And I hope nobody started using
statx() outside of tests.

Agreed on the timing. Late review on my part didn't help.

But, also, David's fix is not quite right. I will send a patch.

Cheers,

Michael

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