From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:54:24 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120821105424.GA7670@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <503367CB.9080609@parallels.com>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:49:47PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >>
> >> However, if you have some better ideas on what information about inode should be exported
> >> to the userspace please share.
> >>
> >
> > Why not use name_to_handle(fd,...) and open_by_handle(handle,..) ?
>
> Because we don't have an fd at hands by the time we need to know the handle.
Yeah, this might be not clear from patchset itself but inotify marks carry
inodes inside kernel thus it's inodes what we can use when we fetch information
about targets and put it into fdinfo output.
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-21 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-15 9:21 [patch 0/8] procfs, fdinfo updated Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 1/8] procfs: Move /proc/pid/fd[info] handling code to fd.[ch] Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 2/8] procfs: Convert /proc/pid/fdinfo/ handling routines to seq-file Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 21:16 ` Al Viro
2012-08-15 21:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 21:29 ` Al Viro
2012-08-15 21:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 10:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 20:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-15 21:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 22:06 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-16 6:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 12:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 12:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-16 13:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 15:05 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 15:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 13:43 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 13:47 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 13:50 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 13:53 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 13:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:03 ` James Bottomley
2012-08-16 14:13 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 14:15 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:41 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 14:48 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-16 14:55 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 15:06 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 15:35 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 15:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-17 20:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-16 13:48 ` Al Viro
2012-08-20 14:19 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-08-20 16:33 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-20 18:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-20 19:06 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-20 19:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-20 19:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-21 9:18 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 10:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-08-21 10:49 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 10:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-08-21 11:09 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 12:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-21 12:22 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 12:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-21 12:40 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 12:51 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-08-21 12:59 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 13:08 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-08-21 13:12 ` Al Viro
2012-08-21 13:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-21 12:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-21 12:25 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-22 5:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-08-23 8:06 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-23 8:54 ` Marco Stornelli
2012-08-23 9:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 5/8] fs, notify: Add procfs fdinfo helper v3 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 6/8] fs, eventfd: Add procfs fdinfo helper Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 7/8] fs, epoll: Add procfs fdinfo helper v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 8/8] fdinfo: Show sigmask for signalfd fd v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
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