On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:05:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > 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. Yes, just recognized that, Al. There will be no way to restore them from fhandle provided via fdinfo. /me scratching the head... > 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. 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
