On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:23:31PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 02:57:19 +1000, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I haven't followed this thread closely, so can you just go back > > and explain to me why you need this? Ie. that you can't achieve with > > a path-to-handle follow/nofollow option. > > > We need to be able to read the link target using file handle. The exact > usecase i have is with respect to implementing READLINK operation on a > userspace NFS server. The request contain the file handle and the > response include target name. Fair point, could you include this stuff in your changelog? It may help with other people reviewing it too who have not followed closely. > Similarly we need to able to get file attribute based on file handle. > I was using readlinkat and fstat to obtain both the above information > using the descriptor returned by open_by_handle on a file handle > representing symlink > > -aneesh -- 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
