[PATCH 0/4] quota: add new quotactl Q_XGETQUOTA2

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sat Jan 9 01:26:00 CST 2016


On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:56:12AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This adds a new quotactl, Q_XGETQUOTA2.
> 
> Q_XGETQUOTA2 is exactly like Q_XGETQUOTA, except that it will
> return quota information for the id equal to or greater than
> the id requested.  In other words, if the specified id has
> no quota, the command will return quota information for the
> next higher id which does have a quota set.  If no higher id
> has an active quota, -ESRCH is returned.

Please add a flags argument to Q_XGETQUOTA2, and then make the
new behavior the first flag.  Keep Q_XGETQUOTA behavior for the
flag-less case.  That way we get future etensibility for free.



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