From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should struct inode be made available to userspace?
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 18:57:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103185712.GV4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bt71ip$cer$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:39:41PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
>
> >struct inode and structures containing it should not be used outside of
> >kernel.
> >Moreover, foo_fs.h should be seriously trimmed down and everything _not_
> >useful outside of kernel should be taken into fs/foo/*; other kernel code
> >also doesn't give a fsck for that stuff, so it should be private to
> >filesystem
> >instead of polluting include/linux/*.
>
> Moving the definitions is fine, but some user programs, like backup
> programs, do benefit from direct interpretation of the inode. Clearly
> that's not a normal user program, but this information is not only
> useful inside the kernel.
No, they do not. They care about on-disk structures, not the in-core
ones fs driver happens to build.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-29 19:40 Should struct inode be made available to userspace? Mariusz Mazur
2003-12-29 19:57 ` viro
2004-01-03 18:39 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-03 18:57 ` viro [this message]
2004-01-04 5:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-04 5:45 ` Jeff Woods
2004-01-04 6:28 ` viro
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