On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:32:47 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > The below set of patches implement open by handle support using exportfs > operations. This allows user space application to map a file name to file > handle and later open the file using handle. This should be usable > for userspace NFS [1] and 9P server [2]. XFS already support this with the ioctls > XFS_IOC_PATH_TO_HANDLE and XFS_IOC_OPEN_BY_HANDLE. > > [1] http://nfs-ganesha.sourceforge.net/ > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/68992 > > git repo for the patchset at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-open-handle.git open-by-handle > > Test case can be found at > http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git > > Changes from V18: > a) Drop open on symlink patch > b) Drop other patches that added support for NULL pathname in *at syscalls > c) Add new handle based syscalls. All of them are restricted to CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH > Hi Al, Any update on this. Are you ok with syscall approach which is limitted to CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH ? -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
