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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	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 04:44:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480343B0.9030505@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414061958.GA21202@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Yes; also, using /proc/self/fd/... makes it a little easier.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14 11:55 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
2008-04-14 11:44   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-14 14:48   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-14 17:34   ` Davide Libenzi

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