From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com,
corbet@lwn.net, neilb@suse.de, npiggin@kernel.dk,
hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp, bfields@fieldses.org, miklos@szeredi.hu
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, sfrench@us.ibm.com,
philippe.deniel@CEA.FR, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V19 00/15] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:51:42 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31v95zweh.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282906982-26918-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:32:47 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The below set of patches implement open by handle support using exportfs
> operations. This allows user space application to map a file name to file
> handle and later open the file using handle. This should be usable
> for userspace NFS [1] and 9P server [2]. XFS already support this with the ioctls
> XFS_IOC_PATH_TO_HANDLE and XFS_IOC_OPEN_BY_HANDLE.
>
> [1] http://nfs-ganesha.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/68992
>
> git repo for the patchset at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-open-handle.git open-by-handle
>
> Test case can be found at
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git
>
> Changes from V18:
> a) Drop open on symlink patch
> b) Drop other patches that added support for NULL pathname in *at syscalls
> c) Add new handle based syscalls. All of them are restricted to CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
>
Hi Al,
Any update on this. Are you ok with syscall approach which is limitted to
CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH ?
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-27 11:02 [PATCH -V19 00/15] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 01/15] exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 02/15] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 03/15] vfs: Add open by file handle support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 04/15] vfs: Add handle based readlink syscall Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 05/15] vfs: Add handle based stat syscall Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 06/15] vfs: Add handle based link syscall Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 07/15] vfs: Add handle based chown syscall Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 08/15] vfs: Add handle based xattr syscalls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 09/15] vfs: Add file access and modification time update via handle syscall Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 10/15] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 11/15] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:02 ` [PATCH -V19 12/15] unistd.h: Add new syscalls numbers to asm-generic Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:03 ` [PATCH -V19 13/15] vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc/<pid>/mountinfo Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:03 ` [PATCH -V19 14/15] ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-27 11:03 ` [PATCH -V19 15/15] ext4: " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-09-07 10:21 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V [this message]
2010-09-07 11:36 ` [PATCH -V19 00/15] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-07 12:59 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-09-07 13:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-12 19:22 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-09-13 6:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-13 6:59 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-13 7:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-17 17:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
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