Re: [PATCH RFC] statx.2: Add stx_atomic_write_unit_max_opt
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2025-03-23 06:40:33
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 10:20:21AM +0000, John Garry wrote:
Coming back to what was discussed about not adding a new flag to fetch this limit:quoted
Does that actually work? Can userspace assume all unknown statx fields are padded to zero?In cp_statx, we do pre-zero the statx structure. As such, the rule "if zero, just use hard limit unit max" seems to hold.
Ok, canwe document this somewhere?