On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:16:02AM -0800, 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. IMO that's a bad idea - majority of callers only care about fd and burdening them with fd_install() is simply wrong. Separate helper function... -- 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
