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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 12:02:00 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Trace Kernel <linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>, 
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, 
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 at 11:35, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
> Which is *NOT* the inode, because the 'struct file' has other things
> in it (the file position, the permissions that were used at open time
> etc, close-on-exec state etc etc).

That close-on-exec thing was a particularly bad example of things that
are in the 'struct file', because it's in fact the only thing that
*isn't* in 'struct file' and is associated directly with the 'int fd'.

But hopefully the intent was clear despite me picking a particularly
bad example.

            Linus