On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 10:10:23AM +0100, Donald Buczek wrote: > On 12/12/23 06:53, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > So can someone please explain to me why we need to try to re-invent > > a generic filehandle concept in statx when we already have a > > have working and widely supported user API that provides exactly > > this functionality? > > name_to_handle_at() is fine, but userspace could profit from being > able to retrieve the filehandle together with the other metadata in > a single system call. Can you say more? What, specifically is the application that would want to do that, and is it really in such a hot path that it would be a user-visible improveable, let aloine something that can be actually be measured? - Ted
