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Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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> On Jul 13, 2018, at 6:27 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>=20
> Whilst I'm at it, do we want the option of doing the equivalent of mountat=
()?
> I.e. offering the option to open all the device files used by a superblock=

> with dfd and AT_* flags in combination with the filename?
>=20

Isn=E2=80=99t that more or less what I was suggesting?  I suggested dfd and p=
ath and I also suggested just an fd and letting the caller open the file its=
elf.

> David