Re: open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2)

On 12.09.2011 21:29:13, +0200, Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Christoph,

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:

quoted

as the actual file handle can have a varying size. The variable of
.I handle_type
specifies how the file within the filesystem is encoded. This value
is set to one of the following values:

This has absolutely no business in the man page.  As far as userspace
is concerned this simply is an opaque handle freely chose by the
file system.  The only reason we have an emum for them is to make
it easier to follow them on the wire using tools like wireshark.


The man page should probably also mentioned that these systems calls
are optinal and might not be present on modern kernel in case they
have been disabled during configuration.

Thank you for the review.

Here is the updated man page with your change requests.

-- 
Ciao
Stephan