Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions [ver #2] | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:36:03 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Jeff Layton wrote: > In the event that we approach running out of flags, we could even use > the last flag as a "HAS_FLAGS2" flag, to add a new flags field at the > end. Ugly, but it would avoid the need for a new syscall. We can kick > that potential problem down the road though. With 64 flags to play > with, it likely won't be a problem for a while.
Along the lines of what Christoph argued, we can also just use the new syscall when that happens.
Arnd
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