From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"adilger\@sun.com" <adilger@sun.com>,
"corbet\@lwn.net" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"npiggin\@kernel.dk" <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
"hooanon05\@yahoo.co.jp" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>,
"bfields\@fieldses.org" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
"miklos\@szeredi.hu" <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
"linux-fsdevel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"sfrench\@us.ibm.com" <sfrench@us.ibm.com>,
"philippe.deniel\@CEA.FR" <philippe.deniel@CEA.FR>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:19:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5hqjb5f.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100823090604.6c735c80@notabene>
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:06:04 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> [[ Following this approach I would like to avoid any filehandle-specific
> syscalls altogether.
> Just use a *at syscall with AT_FILE_HANDLE for filehandle lookup, and use
> getxattr('system:linux.file_handle') to get the filehandle for a given path.
>
> Ofcourse we would need to at *at versions of the *xattr syscalls, but that is
> probably a good idea anyway.
> ]]
sys_setxattrat would take 7 arguments.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-23 2:50 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 [this message]
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
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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