Hi Al, On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Al Viro wrote: > Better: I have the only opened descriptor for foo. I send it to myself > as described above. I close it. revoke() is called, finds no opened > instances of foo in any descriptor tables and cheerfully does nothing. > I call recvmsg() and I have completely undamaged opened file back. Uhm, nice. So, revoke() needs a proper inode -> struct files mapping somewhere. Can we add a list of files to struct inode? Are there other cases where a file can point to an inode but the file is not attached to any file descriptor? Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
