On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:19:07PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > What about unifying the file identification here with the file handle used for open_by_handle()? That keeps a consistent identifier for the inode between multiple system calls (always a good thing), and allows the inode to be opened again via open_by_handle() if needed. That's what the dmapi callouts that are intendeded to do just about the same as fanotify always did. I'm pretty sure I brought this up earlier in the discussion. -- 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