[CC-ing Al too] On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Roland Dreier wrote: > The anonymous inodes interface anon_inode_getfd() calls fd_install() > for the newly created fd, which does not work for some use cases where > the caller must do futher initialization before exposing the file to > userspace. This is also probably not the safest interface, since the > caller must be sure that it is OK if userspace closes the fd before > anon_inode_getfd() even returns. I believe Al changed the interface to not give out inode* and file*, *and* call fd_install() inside it. I'd slightly prefer Al version, although I don't see any major problems in this one too. - Davide - 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
