On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:30:57 -0400 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Why is that? With futexes we suddenly get a file descriptor for something we could never get a file descriptor on before and that doesn't seem to be a problem. Why should symlinks be special as the only thing that you cannot have a file descriptor for? Uniformity of interface is a very valuable property. NeilBrown -- 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
