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SubjectRe: [PATCH 19/19] CacheFiles: Permit daemon to probe inuseness of a cache file
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> Once again a very strong NACK for anything that gets a fd argument as
> text from userspace.

Why? Would you rather I passed it in a struct to an ioctl?

> Also a very strong NACK for use of fget/fget_light from non-core code and
> exports for either of them.

Why?

I could possibly pass the pathname as text, except that (a) the path length
may exceed PAGE_SIZE and MAXPATHLEN, and (b) doing a full path lookup() is a
complete waste of time as the daemon already has the directory open on a file
descriptor, and so effectively has a bookmark to the location that I can use,
if I can but get hold of it.

David
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