On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:21:28 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The patch update may_open to allow handle based open on symlinks. > The file handle based API use file descritor returned from open_by_handle_at > to do different file system operations. To find the link target name we > need to get a file descriptor on symlinks. > > We should be able to read the link target using file handle. The exact > usecase is with respect to implementing READLINK operation on a > userspace NFS server. The request contain the file handle and the > response include target name. > If we don't do this, we will need new syscalls for doing stat, readlink and link on symlinks that take file handle as the argument. If that is ok, I can redo the patch series accordingly. -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
