Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752145Ab0HTNZw (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:25:52 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:47589 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752033Ab0HTNZu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:25:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks From: Peter Zijlstra To: Neil Brown Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com, corbet@lwn.net, npiggin@suse.de, hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp, bfields@fieldses.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, sfrench@us.ibm.com, philippe.deniel@CEA.FR, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100820195303.20b17210@notabene> References: <1282269097-26166-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282269097-26166-5-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100820083057.GA10039@infradead.org> <20100820195303.20b17210@notabene> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:25:29 +0200 Message-ID: <1282310729.2605.989.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 19:53 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > With futexes we suddenly get a file descriptor for something we could never > get a file descriptor on before and that doesn't seem to be a problem. FWIW commit 82af7aca56c67061420d618cc5a30f0fd4106b80 Author: Eric Sesterhenn Date: Fri Jan 25 10:40:46 2008 +0100 Removal of FUTEX_FD -- 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/