Glibc Support For Statx Is Finally Under Review

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Glibc Support For Statx Is Finally Under Review

Red Hat developer Florian Weimer sent out a patch this week adding the statx function to the GNU C Library (glibc)...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Glibc-Statx-Support

[Danny3]

I hope this will help KDE developers to implement the folder/file creation date.

[cl333r]

Why are the fields in statx prefixed with stx_ ? Like 30 years ago it was needed because of compilers, but nowadays??

Example:
struct statx st;
st.stx_mask; // instead of st.mask

[FastCode]

Why are the fields in statx prefixed with stx_ ? Like 30 years ago it was needed because of compilers, but nowadays??

Example:
struct statx st;
st.stx_mask; // instead of st.mask

because 5000 lines later you want to know what type st is by looking at it.

[cl333r]

because 5000 lines later you want to know what type st is by looking at it.

That's not how developers write code for the past 20 years, if you don't know just don't answer. I think it could be related some compatibility issue.

[xnor]

Why are the fields in statx prefixed with stx_ ? Like 30 years ago it was needed because of compilers, but nowadays??

Consistency.

[carewolf]

Why are the fields in statx prefixed with stx_ ? Like 30 years ago it was needed because of compilers, but nowadays??

Example:
struct statx st;
st.stx_mask; // instead of st.mask

Because C is a shit language, so shitty APIs are expected, if it was anything remotely sane, C programmers would think it was C++ and shun it

[cybertraveler]

cl333r must be losing faith in humanity right now.

[timofonic]

cl333r must be losing faith in humanity right now.

Even more? Is that possible?

[andreano]

Why are the fields in statx prefixed with stx_

I was wondering the same, but I think I actually like it – it makes it actually possible to search for a field name, in code and in search engines.

No technical reason needed.