On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:00:06PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I don't think it's silly. Read/write get passed the file descriptor, > and it makes a lot of sense, if the filesystem has stateful opens. > > Similarly for any fs operation that gets a file descriptor, it makes > sense to pass the relevant open file down into the filesystem. read/write fundamentally operate on file descriptors. None of these operations does, rather their normal forms get a path name and special forms operate on a file descriptor to avoid lookup races. Still the underlying operation has nothing to do with the file descriptor at all. > If you look carefully, the ftrunacate() already does this, becuse > without that it's impossible to implement correct semantics in the > filesystem in some cases. ftruncate is a special case due to O_TRUNC. But I have plans to solve this whole issue more elegant than the current hack. > For other operations it's not impossible, but it would mean more hacks > in the filesystem itself (such as sillyrenaming) that are entirely > unneeded if the file info is available. It's not a problem at all for filesystem that implement normal unix semantics. If you want to shoer-horn strange semantics that barely fit, you'll need some more hacks. - 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
