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. > > Any pointer to that patch? A web search for "viro" and > "anon_inode_getfd" doesn't turn up anything likely looking. It's inside his vfs git tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=49be4f8114e6ff0efdab10ebba2493fb67bc3034 I'm fine with both approaches. - 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
