On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:05:34AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:04:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Don't rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for ksys_open to work, but > > instead open a struct file for /dev/console and then install it as FD > > 0/1/2 manually. > > I really hate that one. Every time we exposed the internal details to > the fucking early init code, we paid for that afterwards. And this > goes over the top wrt the level of details being exposed. > > _IF_ you want to keep that thing, move it to fs/file.c, with dire comment > re that being very special shite for init and likely cause of subsequent > trouble whenever anything gets changed, a gnat farts somewhere, etc. Err, while I'm all for keeping internals internal, fd_install and get_unused_fd_flags are exported routines with tons of users of this pattern all over.
