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List:       linux-api
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH
From:       "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-04-27 11:53:47
Message-ID: CAKgNAkhBa6yiwY3unzxnK6TZ5umZUNTWxpXt1C9odHXfpcBuJg () mail ! gmail ! com
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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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