Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:08:30 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 |
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Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote: > > The current way pads out the structure unnecessarily, and still doesn't > handle the really long filenames, by your admission. It incurs extra > syscalls, as few filenames are really 256 characters in length.
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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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