Re: [PATCH 15/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator

Al Viro
2010-10-08T10:19:26Z

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:09:44PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Can be done if you bother to add ->getattr() for those, but you'll need
> > to do some kind of lazy allocation of inumbers for those; fstat() _will_
> > want st_ino.
>
> Why not just put 0 in st_ino for sockets/pipes/etc. ?

Because it's a userland-visible change; right now you can compare
i_ino for sockets...