From: Pascal Bouchareine <kalou@tfz.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:48:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGbU3_kOhXEx2s19P==F2-CyHFGbX_qKVWhPi+kPe3tmsY=HfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200814052801.GA10141@infradead.org>
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:28 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > One intended usage is to allow processes to self-document sockets
> > for netstat and friends to report
>
> NAK. There is no way we're going to bloat a criticial structure like
> struct file for some vanity information like this.
The useful case is for sockets - Is there a more suited place to do that?
Do you think adding a setsockopt and sk_description to struct sock
would work, or would be considered the same?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-14 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-14 3:54 [PATCH v4 0/2] proc,fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION Pascal Bouchareine
2020-08-14 3:54 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] mm: add GFP mask param to strndup_user Pascal Bouchareine
2020-08-14 3:54 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION Pascal Bouchareine
2020-08-14 5:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-14 5:48 ` Pascal Bouchareine [this message]
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