From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755748Ab2D3Lov (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:44:51 -0400 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:36754 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754026Ab2D3Lot (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:44:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:44:10 -0400 From: "Ted Ts'o" To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Mike Frysinger , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, Richard Weinberger , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] open(2): document O_PATH Message-ID: <20120430114410.GB28308@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Ts'o , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Mike Frysinger , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, Richard Weinberger , lkml References: <1335669917-23970-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <877gwxacti.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877gwxacti.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on test.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It might also be a good idea to document explicitly whether or not things like fstat() and the syscalls to manipulate extended attributes are expected to work. Thanks, - Ted