Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] add statmnt(2) syscall
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: 2023-09-18 16:26:25
Also in:
linux-api, linux-fsdevel, linux-man, lkml
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: 2023-09-18 16:26:25
Also in:
linux-api, linux-fsdevel, linux-man, lkml
On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 16:40, Christian Brauner [off-list ref] wrote:
What we're talking about here is a nicely typed struct which returns two paths @mnt_root and @mnt_point which can both be represented as u64 pointers with length parameters like we do in other binary structs such as bpf and clone3 and a few others. That is a compromise I can live with. I'm really trying to find as much common ground here as we can.
So to be clear about your proposal: .mnt_root and .mountpoint are initialized by the caller to buffers that the kernel can copy paths into? If there's an overflow (one of the buffers was too small) the syscall returns -EOVERFLOW? Thanks, Miklos