Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:39:18 +0100 From: Jan-Simon Pendry <jsp@pendry.com> To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> Cc: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>, Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, NetBSD Kernel <tech-kern@netbsd.org> Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API Message-ID: <377661C6.89FB7F5@pendry.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906271238590.24019-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> Proposed API on the Linux side being
> int chflags(name, level, oldp, newp); where level is FL_VFS for generic
> attirbutes (fs may map them on its own set) and FL_{UFS,EXT2,...} for raw
> flags - corresponding filesystem is free to interpret the thing as it
> likes and should set the generic attributes in the right way.
if linux introduces a different API (ie not just an extension of
the existing bsd API) then please do *not* call it "chflags".
it took years just to get over the bsd vs. svr4 gettimeofday()
fiasco. btw, what's the proposed API for getting the current
attribute set?
jan-simon.
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