Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

viro
2004-08-28T18:29:54Z

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Comments? Does anybody hate "openat()" for any reason (regardless of
> attributes)? We can easily support it, we'd just need to pass in the file
> to use as part of the "nameidata" thing or add an argument (it would also
> possibly be cleaner if we made "fs->pwd" be a "struct file").

What would your openat() produce? Normal struct file? Then what's going
to be its vfsmount/dentry and what will they be attached to?