From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:47:59 +1000 Message-ID: <20100821094759.24a6dc37@notabene> References: <1282269097-26166-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1282269097-26166-5-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100820083057.GA10039@infradead.org> <20100820195303.20b17210@notabene> <1282310729.2605.989.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com, corbet@lwn.net, npiggin@suse.de, 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 To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34006 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751044Ab0HTXsQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:48:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1282310729.2605.989.camel@laptop> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:25:29 +0200 Peter Dijkstra wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 19:53 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > With futexes we suddenly get a file descriptor for something we could never > > get a file descriptor on before and that doesn't seem to be a problem. > > FWIW > > commit 82af7aca56c67061420d618cc5a30f0fd4106b80 > Author: Eric Sesterhenn > Date: Fri Jan 25 10:40:46 2008 +0100 > > Removal of FUTEX_FD Interesting - thanks. OK, adjust my argument to reference signalfd, timerfs and pollfd. I haven't looked at that code before - "anon_inode_getfd" gives you an fd on an inode for which (stat.st_mode & S_IFMT) == 0 Cool! They have no format at all :-) NeilBrown