Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:53:47 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH |
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On 27 April 2017 at 00:03, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: >> [!] NOTE: This breaks UAPI introduced in 4.11-rc1. > > Ugh. > > I'm, applying this now, so that we don't end up with a released kernel > that supports the NULL filename thing. > > I'm not happy about the timing though. And I hope nobody started using > statx() outside of tests.
Agreed on the timing. Late review on my part didn't help.
But, also, David's fix is not quite right. I will send a patch.
Cheers,
Michael
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