Re: [PATCH 00/17] VFS: Filesystem information and notifications [ver #17]

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +	fd = do_sys_open(dfd, filename, flags, 0000);
> +	if (fd <= 0)
> +		return fd;
> +
> +	retval = ksys_read(fd, buffer, bufsize);
> +
> +	__close_fd(current->files, fd);

If you can use dentry_open() and vfs_read(), you might be able to avoid
dealing with file descriptors entirely.  That might make it worth a syscall.

You're going to be asked for writefile() you know ;-)

David




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