On Sep 21, 2007 16:59 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > What I'm saying is that read and write are _no_more_ related to the > file than fstat. Read/write operate on inode data, fstat operates on > inode metadata. The read and write operations are DEFINITELY related to the file descriptor because of f_pos. Each process opening the same file can have a different f_pos so read/write will work in different locations of the file. In contrast getattr and getxattr operate on the single inode and you don't get e.g. a different i_size or i_uid or i_gid depending on who opened a file, nor is the xattr different. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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
