From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] F_GETPATH for linux
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:19:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080414061958.GA21202@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804131455030.12741@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:00:53PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> I was working on some bsd/linux compatibility code, and I noticed that we
> do not have F_GETPATH. I know we can readlink /proc/PID/fd/FD (that is
> what I'm doing now, under #ifdef), but I gave a patch a shot anyway.
> Here it is, building but untested ...
Adding a duplicated API like this is rather pointless. Especially as
the readlink is easier and makes more sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-14 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 22:00 [patch] F_GETPATH for linux Davide Libenzi
2008-04-14 1:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-14 1:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-04-14 5:34 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-14 17:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-04-14 6:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-04-14 11:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-14 14:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-14 17:34 ` Davide Libenzi
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