As we all probably know, there have been several complaints about statx.
It's been a very problematic protocol element. In order to simplify it and
make it more consistent I'd like to change the meaning of the flags whch
would them allow an implementation that makes sense,
The currently returned flags are:
flags identifies the entry's attributes as a binary character. The entry
should be assumed to be an immediately available regular file unless one or
more of the following bits are set.
kXR_xset - Either an executable file or a searchable
directory.
kXR_isDir - This is a directory.
kXR_other - This neither a file nor a directory, or does not
exist.
kkXR_offline - For files, the file is not online (i.e., on disk).
I would like to change it to be:
kXR kXR_exists - Object exists and is either an file or a directory.
kXR_offline - For files, the file is not online (i.e., on disk).
Any Hence, the object does not exist if all the bits are set to zero. I can
make the corresponding client code changes to ease the effort. Anyone would
rather not?
a Andy
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