Thread (9 messages) flat view 9 messages, 5 authors, 2018-10-19

Re: [PATCH 2/3] uapi: get rid of STATX_ALL

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: 2018-10-18 23:18:18
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

Miklos Szeredi [off-list ref] wrote:
Constants of the *_ALL type can be actively harmful due to the fact that
developers will usually fail to consider the possible effects of future
changes to the definition.

Remove STATX_ALL from the uapi, while no damage has been done yet.
You don't know that someone's not using it.  It's been there a year and a
half, long enough.  So, regretfully, I don't think we can remove it at this
point.

David
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