Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:41:58 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Why don't you pass a file descriptor into the syscall instead of a pathname? > You can then take a ref on the inode and userspace can close the file. > That gets you permission checking for free.
For passing in the data, that would work. Wouldn't you still need a name or path when getting data back though?
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