Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, ioctl() with an O_PATH file descriptor always fails with EBADF because > sys_ioctl() uses fdget() rather than fdget_raw(). The filesystem isn't > involved at all. This is intentional, I believe. Yeah. Apparently so, though some ioctls might make sense if they're asking about the filesystem. Anyway, I need to fix xfs_io for that now too if I'm going to use that. I wonder what xfs_io needs the geometry for. I'm getting the impression xfs_io isn't really the tool I should be using for this. Dvid
