lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2023]   [Jul]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: Add fchmodat2() - or add a more general syscall?
Date
* David Howells:

> Rather than adding a fchmodat2() syscall, should we add a "set_file_attrs()"
> syscall that takes a mask and allows you to set a bunch of stuff all in one
> go? Basically, an interface to notify_change() in the kernel that would allow
> several stats to be set atomically. This might be of particular interest to
> network filesystems.

Do you mean atomically as in compare-and-swap (update only if old values
match), or just a way to update multiple file attributes with a single
system call?

Thanks,
Florian

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2023-07-25 18:14    [W:0.394 / U:0.500 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site