Re: [PATCH v6 09/11] fs/pipe.c: export create_pipe_files() and replace_fd()

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On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:42:20PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 06:35:04AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Repeated NAK - any interface that deals with raw file descriptor table
> > entries has absolutely no business in a driver.
> > 
> > Please fix your API already.
> 
> Does it make a differnece if the code is moved to arch/x86, which could
> potentially happen (see Darren's and tglx's comments on v5)? Then the
> need for export will be gone.

Yes.  You still shall not play nasty games with file descriptors.



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