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SubjectRe: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:43:12 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:21:28 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > The patch update may_open to allow handle based open on symlinks.
> > The file handle based API use file descritor returned from open_by_handle_at
> > to do different file system operations. To find the link target name we
> > need to get a file descriptor on symlinks.
> >
> > We should be able to read the link target using file handle. The exact
> > usecase is with respect to implementing READLINK operation on a
> > userspace NFS server. The request contain the file handle and the
> > response include target name.
> >
>
> If we don't do this, we will need new syscalls for doing stat, readlink
> and link on symlinks that take file handle as the argument. If that is ok,
> I can redo the patch series accordingly.
>

This ended up with the below new syscalls

sys_handle_readlink, sys_handle_stat64, sys_handle_link, sys_handle_chown,
sys_handle_setxattr, sys_handle_getxattr, sys_handle_listxattr,
sys_handle_removexattr, sys_handle_utimes, compat_sys_handle_utimes

-aneesh


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