Joel Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > The less variable length stuff the better, I think. At least, > for the stuff stat(2) already returns, you should have a fixed-size > structure. Even if I only pass the GIVE_ME_UIDS flag, I don't want to > have to deal with the variable size stuff until I've actually asked for > esoteric things. I'll know that the non-UIDS fields are garbage by the > fact that I didn't ask for them.
I was thinking of the fixed length xstat struct plus appendable extensions to be defined later. I could live with each defined extension being of a fixed length, so for example, you set bit 20, and it adds, say, a 16-byte volume ID in the appropriate order, padded out appropriately for the filesystem. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
