Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date: 2018-07-13 15:17:00
Also in:
linux-fsdevel, lkml
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2018-07-19 · Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9] · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
On Jul 13, 2018, at 6:27 AM, David Howells [off-list ref] wrote: Whilst I'm at it, do we want the option of doing the equivalent of mountat()? I.e. offering the option to open all the device files used by a superblock with dfd and AT_* flags in combination with the filename?
Isn’t that more or less what I was suggesting? I suggested dfd and path and I also suggested just an fd and letting the caller open the file itself.
David