Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:08:30 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0
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Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:
>
> The current way pads out the structure unnecessarily, and still doesn't
> handle the really long filenames, by your admission. It incurs extra
> syscalls, as few filenames are really 256 characters in length. 

Why don't you pass a file descriptor into the syscall instead of a pathname?
You can then take a ref on the inode and userspace can close the file.
That gets you permission checking for free.
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