From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: 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,
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 18:29:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d3spvhdn.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OswT5-000709-U9@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:36:03 +0200, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Sep 2010, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> > Any update on this. Are you ok with syscall approach which is limitted to
> > CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH ?
>
> My gut reaction is: "not another bunch of xattr syscalls!". It
> doesn't feel right, this interface is too specialized to warrant a
> full set of filesystem syscalls.
Are you ok with rest of syscalls other than the handle based xattr one ?
In that case can we get rest of the patches merged and rework xattr patches
later ?. That is xattr support for symlink can follow as a separate patch
series ?
>
> Al Viro is right that there are problems with symlinks. What we
> really want here is a sort of symlink that doesn't get followed. One
> way to provide that is to create a kernel internal "handle" filesystem
> and direct open_by_handle() to that for anything not a directory or a
> regular file.
>
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 13:00 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 ` [PATCH -V19 00/15] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-09-07 11:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-09-07 12:59 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V [this message]
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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