On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:09:44PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Can be done if you bother to add ->getattr() for those, but you'll need > > to do some kind of lazy allocation of inumbers for those; fstat() _will_ > > want st_ino. > > Why not just put 0 in st_ino for sockets/pipes/etc. ? Because it's a userland-visible change; right now you can compare i_ino for sockets... -- 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