Suddenly getting an file pointer for a symlink which could never happen before is a really bad idea. Just add a proper readlink_by_handle system call, similar to what's done in the XFS interface. -- 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