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From: Aneesh Kumar K. V

Subject: Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks

Date: Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 7:49 pm

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:06:04 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
quoted text> [[ 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
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[PATCH -V18 0/13] Generic name to handle and open by handl ..., Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 01/13] exportfs: Return the minimum required h ..., Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 02/13] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion ..., Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 03/13] vfs: Add open by file handle support, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 05/13] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 06/13] vfs: Support null pathname in faccessat, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 07/13] vfs: Support null pathname in linkat, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 08/13] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 09/13] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 10/13] unistd.h: Add new syscalls numbers to a ..., Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 11/13] vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc/ ..., Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 12/13] ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock., Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

[PATCH -V18 13/13] ext4: Copy fs UUID to superblock, Aneesh Kumar K.V, (Thu Aug 19, 6:51 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Thu Aug 19, 7:13 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Thu Aug 19, 11:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Aug 20, 1:30 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 05/13] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink, Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Aug 20, 1:32 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Fri Aug 20, 2:53 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 05/13] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink, Neil Brown, (Fri Aug 20, 3:04 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Al Viro, (Fri Aug 20, 4:51 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Aug 20, 6:25 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Fri Aug 20, 7:38 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 05/13] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink, Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Fri Aug 20, 7:43 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Fri Aug 20, 4:47 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Fri Aug 20, 5:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Nick Piggin, (Sat Aug 21, 1:30 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Sat Aug 21, 2:31 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Sat Aug 21, 2:32 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Sat Aug 21, 2:42 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Sat Aug 21, 7:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Sun Aug 22, 4:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Sun Aug 22, 4:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Sun Aug 22, 6:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Sun Aug 22, 6:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Sun Aug 22, 7:49 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Aug 24, 12:21 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Bastien ROUCARIES, (Tue Aug 24, 2:41 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Tue Aug 24, 3:34 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Aneesh Kumar K. V, (Tue Aug 24, 3:40 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., J. Bruce Fields, (Tue Aug 24, 6:19 am)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Tue Aug 24, 7:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Neil Brown, (Tue Aug 24, 7:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on sym ..., Bastien ROUCARIES, (Wed Aug 25, 2:13 am)

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