Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:19:21 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator |
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:09:44PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Can be done if you bother to add ->getattr() for those, but you'll need > > to do some kind of lazy allocation of inumbers for those; fstat() _will_ > > want st_ino. > > Why not just put 0 in st_ino for sockets/pipes/etc. ?
Because it's a userland-visible change; right now you can compare i_ino for sockets...
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