Hi guys, when we do restore files such as eventfd/eventpoll we need to pass appropriate parameters to system calls. Unfortunately there is no easy way to retrieve this information from the kernel. So to make possible to obtain this kind of information the proc/pid/fdinfo/fd handling code has been modified to print "extra" snippets depending on file type. The base idea is to make fdinfo being seq-files and plug-in helpers. For example eventpoll files together with basic pos/flags now print out target file descriptor number, events and data associated with an event: | pos: 0 | flags: 02 | tfd: 5 events: 1d data: ffffffffffffffff This series is early draft not for inclusion yet but just to gather people opinions on idea in general and implementation details. I tried to make the change as small as I can. I'm working on fsnotify part at moment but since it's not yet complete decided to not include this patch, it'll appear later. (I've been said that idea of extending fdinfo to provide additional data snippets was approved on LSF this year. Am I right, Pavel?) Any comments and complains are highly appreciated! Cyrill -- 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
