Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #2] | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:55:51 +0100 |
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> I think it would be better to leave the structure as write-only from > the kernel
Why?
> and pass the query_flags and struct_version as syscall arguments, though it > makes sense to store them in the result as well.
The problem with that is that the number of syscall arguments is limited, and there is no SYSCALL_DEFINE7.
On the other hand, I could make a separate argument block struct and pass a pointer to it...
David
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