Oh, and the other nice thing is this in our own code for ext2....
# if EXT2_IFSOCK != S_IFSOCK
if (EXT2_ISSOCK (mode))
{
ptr->mode &= ~EXT2_IFSOCK;
ptr->mode |= S_IFSOCK;
}
# endif
The above is because if you bring in a filesystem from another Linux
machine that uses EXT2 we have to do conversion. Yuck.
It makes sense to move to this "defacto" standard.
No. ext2.xfs is a device driver, subordinate to the kernel. It has to do as many data conversions as it is necessary for the kernel and (if the data reaches the apps) applications.
I would be against the change until more evidence is available. For now, only two programs have been adduced, one being a programming language (and the problematic file is *.py), and nothing has been quoted from the other one (git? or what), that would make it evident that MiNT's stat() is to be changed.
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