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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] name_to_handle_at.2: Document the AT_HANDLE_MNT_ID_UNIQUE flag
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:16:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250331081642.1423812-1-amir73il@gmail.com> (raw)

A flag since v6.12 to indicate that the requested mount_id is
a 64bit unique id.

Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
 man/man2/open_by_handle_at.2 | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man2/open_by_handle_at.2 b/man/man2/open_by_handle_at.2
index 6b9758d42..e3ec70dd5 100644
--- a/man/man2/open_by_handle_at.2
+++ b/man/man2/open_by_handle_at.2
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ The
 .I flags
 argument is a bit mask constructed by ORing together zero or more of
 .BR AT_HANDLE_FID ,
+.BR AT_HANDLE_MNT_ID_UNIQUE,
 .BR AT_EMPTY_PATH ,
 and
 .BR AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW ,
@@ -147,6 +148,21 @@ with the returned
 .I file_handle
 may fail.
 .P
+When
+.I flags
+contain the
+.BR AT_HANDLE_MNT_ID_UNIQUE " (since Linux 6.12)"
+.\" commit 4356d575ef0f39a3e8e0ce0c40d84ce900ac3b61
+flag, the caller indicates that the size of the
+.I mount_id
+buffer is at least 64bit
+and then the mount id returned in that buffer
+is the unique mount id as the one returned by
+.BR statx (2)
+with the
+.BR STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE
+flag.
+.P
 Together, the
 .I pathname
 and
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-03-31  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-31  8:16 Amir Goldstein [this message]
2025-03-31  8:16 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] name_to_handle_at.2: Document the AT_HANDLE_CONNECTABLE flag Amir Goldstein
2025-03-31  8:45   ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-03-31  8:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] name_to_handle_at.2: Document the AT_HANDLE_MNT_ID_UNIQUE flag Alejandro Colomar
2025-03-31  9:37   ` Amir Goldstein

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