From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>, Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: proposed libc interface and man page for statmount(2)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:18:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231122-busspur-pfoten-6644c819c12c@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegt-rNHdH1OdZHoNu86W6m-OHjWn8yT6LezFzPNxymWLzw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 08:42:17PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 at 02:33, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
>
> > I've completely lost what we are talking about.
>
> I started thinking about a good userspace API, and I'm skeptical about
> the proposed kernel API being good for userspace as well.
>
> Maybe something like this would be the simplest and least likely to be
> misused (and also very similar to opendir/readdir/closedir):
I want batch retrieval to be possible with the kernel interface. That's
important for userspace and was requested in the LSFMM discussion.
I would like to grab the proposal to return the last mount id in struct
mnt_id_req. In userspace it can then easily be implemented the way you
proposed below.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-22 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-15 15:08 proposed libc interface and man page for statmount(2) Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-16 20:12 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-11-16 20:36 ` Florian Weimer
2023-11-16 21:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-17 14:22 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-17 14:47 ` Florian Weimer
2023-11-17 15:13 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-17 15:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-20 11:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-20 12:16 ` Florian Weimer
2023-11-20 12:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-20 23:56 ` Ian Kent
2023-11-21 0:58 ` Ian Kent
2023-11-21 1:12 ` Ian Kent
2023-11-21 1:33 ` Ian Kent
2023-11-21 19:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-11-21 20:42 ` Zack Weinberg
2023-11-21 23:28 ` Ian Kent
2023-11-22 16:18 ` Zack Weinberg
2023-11-21 23:07 ` Ian Kent
2023-11-22 10:18 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2023-11-20 15:38 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-20 15:30 ` Christian Brauner
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