Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd) | From | Magnus Ahltorp <> | Date | 12 Jan 1999 11:02:41 +0100 |
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> Basically "open_by_handle()" is not a generic solution, and _that_ > is my gripe.
You are right, open_by_handle() is not a generic solution. However, in my implementation of the function, I only support those filesystems that only needs iget() to get an inode. This is even less generic.
The inode number and the iget() function forms a forced get_fh/open_fh interface that is not working for all file systems. In *BSD, there is a VFS_VGET function that gets a vnode when provided with a file handle.
I'm going to continue my use of open_by_handle(), regardless of whether it is supported either with a syscall or an internal vfs interface. I just think it would be a good idea to put some support for it into the kernel.
/Magnus map@stacken.kth.se
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