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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix bug with virtio-9p fsync
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On 04/26/2011 06:29 AM, Sassan Panahinejad wrote:
> I will have to study XATTR and see how that will be affected. I don't 
> know whether it is possible for these functions to be called for 
> XATTR, and if it is then I do not know the proper way to handle it.
> Perhaps we should have some function or macro to obtain the correct FD 
> from an fidp structure, which could be used for fsync, wstat, lock and 
> getlock?
I agree; we need some level of macro for this. How about doing that as 
part of this patch itself?

Thanks,
JV