Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:28:01 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION |
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 08:54:53PM -0700, Pascal Bouchareine wrote: > This command attaches a description to a file descriptor for > troubleshooting purposes. The free string is displayed in the > process fdinfo file for that fd /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd. > > One intended usage is to allow processes to self-document sockets > for netstat and friends to report
NAK. There is no way we're going to bloat a criticial structure like struct file for some vanity information like this.
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