Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2020-08-14 05:28:07
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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.