On Mon, 27 May 2024 at 09:31, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Alternatively, with a sane set of helpers we could actually _replace_
> struct fd definition without a huge flagday commit
It wouldn't even be all that huge. We've got less than 200 of those
'struct fd' users, and some of them hardly even look at the result,
but just pass it off to other helpers (ie the kernel/bpf/syscalls.c
pattern).
With just a couple of helpers it would be mostly a cleanup.
Linus
