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On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 12:07:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 11:04, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 09:46:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > I'd be perfectly ok with adding a generic "FISAME" VFS level ioctl
> > > too, if this is possibly a more common thing. and not just DRM wants
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Would something like that work for you?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > Adding Simon and Pekka as two of the usual suspects for this kind of
> > stuff. Also example code (the int return value is just so that callers know
> > when kcmp isn't available, they all only care about equality):
> >
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/os_file.c#L239
> 
> That example thing shows that we shouldn't make it a FISAME ioctl - we
> should make it a fcntl() instead, and it would just be a companion to
> F_DUPFD.
> 
> Doesn't that strike everybody as a *much* cleaner interface? I think

+1
See
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/a4f0e0da3573a10bc5404142be8799418760b1d1/src/basic/fd-util.c#L517
that's another heavy user of this kind of functionality.