From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com,
corbet@lwn.net, neilb@suse.de, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V18 05/13] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:13:14 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38w41s5tp.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820083213.GB10039@infradead.org>
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:32:13 -0400, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> Changing the interfaces of existing system calls to accept a NULL name
> which previously wasn't acceptable is not valid. Even for new system
> calls I think it's a bad idea. utimensat already has the most ugly
> code of all fs related system calls because of that.
>
But from an interface point, it seems nice to say if the relative name
from an fd is NULL, the operation should happen on fd itself.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-20 1:51 [PATCH -V18 0/13] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 01/13] exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 02/13] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 03/13] vfs: Add open by file handle support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 2:13 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-20 6:53 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-20 8:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-20 9:53 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-20 11:51 ` Al Viro
2010-08-21 0:09 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-21 7:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-08-21 9:32 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-22 23:06 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-23 1:24 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-23 1:52 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-24 10:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-23 2:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-25 2:06 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-24 9:41 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2010-08-25 2:04 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-25 9:13 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2010-08-21 8:30 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-21 9:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-22 2:02 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-24 7:21 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-24 10:34 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-24 13:19 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-08-22 23:17 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-24 7:29 ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-21 9:31 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-20 13:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-20 23:47 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-20 14:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 05/13] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 8:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-20 10:04 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-20 14:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V [this message]
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 06/13] vfs: Support null pathname in faccessat Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 07/13] vfs: Support null pathname in linkat Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 08/13] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 09/13] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 10/13] unistd.h: Add new syscalls numbers to asm-generic Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 11/13] vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc/<pid>/mountinfo Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 12/13] ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-08-20 1:51 ` [PATCH -V18 13/13] ext4: " Aneesh Kumar K.V
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