Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752861Ab0HWCuG (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:50:06 -0400 Received: from e23smtp02.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.144]:53143 "EHLO e23smtp02.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751749Ab0HWCuE (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:50:04 -0400 From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" To: Neil Brown , Andreas Dilger Cc: Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , "adilger\@sun.com" , "corbet\@lwn.net" , "npiggin\@kernel.dk" , "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" Subject: Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks In-Reply-To: <20100823090604.6c735c80@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> <20100820115135.GQ31363@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20100821100900.4b15fe08@notabene> <17761610-AFA9-4BB5-AF62-CD54D67F5C79@oracle.com> <20100823090604.6c735c80@notabene> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.3.1-58-g6607fd6 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:19:48 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 18 On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:06:04 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > [[ Following this approach I would like to avoid any filehandle-specific > syscalls altogether. > Just use a *at syscall with AT_FILE_HANDLE for filehandle lookup, and use > getxattr('system:linux.file_handle') to get the filehandle for a given path. > > Ofcourse we would need to at *at versions of the *xattr syscalls, but that is > probably a good idea anyway. > ]] sys_setxattrat would take 7 arguments. -aneesh -- 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/