On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:19:48 +0530
"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:06:04 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [[ Following this approach I would like to avoid any filehandle-specific
> > syscalls altogether.
> > Just use a *at syscall with AT_FILE_HANDLE for filehandle lookup, and use
> > getxattr('system:linux.file_handle') to get the filehandle for a given path.
> >
> > Ofcourse we would need to at *at versions of the *xattr syscalls, but that is
> > probably a good idea anyway.
> > ]]
>
> sys_setxattrat would take 7 arguments.
>
I count 6 - assuming we share the 'flags' argument. There are only 2 xattr
flags currently so there should be room to share.
dirfd path name value size flags == 6
NeilBrown
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