Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752228Ab0HTJVm (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:21:42 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:39263 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920Ab0HTJVk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:21:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:21:27 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andreas Dilger Cc: Eric Paris , Andreas Gruenbacher , Christoph Hellwig , Matt Helsley , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Michael Kerrisk , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] notification tree: directory events Message-ID: <20100820092127.GC20138@infradead.org> References: <1281110319.17812.21.camel@dhcp231-200.rdu.redhat.com> <201008191444.08966.agruen@suse.de> <1282230012.21419.1566.camel@acb20005.ipt.aol.com> <201008200141.10068.agruen@suse.de> <1282275497.21419.2073.camel@acb20005.ipt.aol.com> <5FB2A21F-95D3-4B99-A521-74346EEEAF5B@dilger.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5FB2A21F-95D3-4B99-A521-74346EEEAF5B@dilger.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 11 On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:19:07PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > What about unifying the file identification here with the file handle used for open_by_handle()? That keeps a consistent identifier for the inode between multiple system calls (always a good thing), and allows the inode to be opened again via open_by_handle() if needed. That's what the dmapi callouts that are intendeded to do just about the same as fanotify always did. I'm pretty sure I brought this up earlier in the discussion. -- 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/