On 9/11/19 10:29 AM, Lady Aleena wrote:
I thank everyone who got involved with my little wish. I did not mean
for it to explode like this. I am entirely comfortable letting the whole
idea drop since there appears to be little to no support for it. I was
just an idle wish that crossed my mind that
* add wrapper functions for stat, lstat and stat_for_mode so that we
can conditionally plug in statx-enabled variants
* add statx-enabled functions and set the request mask based on the
output format and what values are needed
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src/ls.c | 73 +
* move statx_timestamp_to_timespec and statx_to_stat to a new header
---
src/stat.c | 32 +--
src/statx.h | 54 +
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 src/statx.h
diff --git a/src/st
* move loop detection routine into separate function
* add a statx-enabled variant that is used when it's available. No need
for a full stat since all we care about is the dev/ino.
* Since dev/ino should never change, set AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC
unconditionally.
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src/ls.c | 106 +
This patchset converts the ls command to use statx instead of stat when
available. This allows ls to indicate interest in only certain inode
metadata.
This is potentially a win on networked/clustered/distributed
filesystems. In cases where we'd have to do a full, heavyweight stat()
call we can now
I thank everyone who got involved with my little wish. I did not mean
for it to explode like this. I am entirely comfortable letting the whole
idea drop since there appears to be little to no support for it. I was
just an idle wish that crossed my mind that I wanted to share.
Again, thank you
