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. It is not just readlink that we would need. We would require sys_handle_readlink, sys_handle_stat64, sys_handle_link, sys_handle_chown, sys_handle_setxattr, sys_handle_getxattr, sys_handle_listxattr, sys_handle_removexattr, sys_handle_utimes, compat_sys_handle_utimes I have most of the changes done, so if we are ok adding all these new syscalls i can post the patch series. -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
