Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:11:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:11:33 -0500 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:57348 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:11:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:18:39 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill i_dev Message-ID: <20021122011839.A18100@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:56:23PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 674 Lines: 14 > I'm not convinced that returning random numbers to user space is > necessarily a great idea.. That said, I think we already do it for unnamed > pipes anyway, so I'm more wondering if we should have some way to map > these numbews (in user space) to a valid thing, so that they wouldn't just > be random numbers. That just means someone has to implement a trivial ->getattr wrapper for sockfs that zeroes out the st_dev field. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/