On Tue, 7 May 2024 at 11:04, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 09:46:31AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I'd be perfectly ok with adding a generic "FISAME" VFS level ioctl > > too, if this is possibly a more common thing. and not just DRM wants > > it. > > > > Would something like that work for you? > > Yes. > > Adding Simon and Pekka as two of the usual suspects for this kind of > stuff. Also example code (the int return value is just so that callers know > when kcmp isn't available, they all only care about equality): > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/os_file.c#L239 That example thing shows that we shouldn't make it a FISAME ioctl - we should make it a fcntl() instead, and it would just be a companion to F_DUPFD. Doesn't that strike everybody as a *much* cleaner interface? I think F_ISDUP would work very naturally indeed with F_DUPFD. Yes? No? Linus
