On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:57:00PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > Guys, would the patch below be more-less acceptible? > In inotify I think we could pass "parent" as NULL and use general > encode engine then (ie it will look like someone called for > name_to_handle_at on inotify target). Wait. What the hell are you going to do with those afterwards? Again, there's a shitload of filesystems that cannot be exported over NFS, exactly because there's no way to implement sanely working fhandles. And idiotify is allowed for all of them. You *can't* decode anything fhandle-like on e.g. sysfs. Or procfs. Or configfs. Or any network filesystem (I'd argue that we should simply ban idiotify on those, but good luck doing that). You *can* do that for FAT derivatives, but only if you have parent directory when creating that sucker. -- 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
