Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:32:32 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink |
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Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > > We discussed this previously; I described the problems with > existing semantics, and on 2000/020/29 you wrote: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=fa.iqoa6kv.flii0q%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dhpa%2Brugolsky%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch > > "I'm hoping to fix this in 2.5. The problem is that the way open() is > done in the VFS *requires* the creation of a new filestructure." > > I'm still open to suggestions. ;-) >
I suggested at one point the following change:
Instead of having the filesystem open() method being passed in a pointer to already allocated, partially initialized file structure, that code should be moved to a library function, and instead let the open() method return a struct file *. That way open() could either return a reference to an already-allocated file or a new one.
-hpa
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