From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill i_dev
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:18:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021122011839.A18100@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211211548530.5779-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:56:23PM -0800
> I'm not convinced that returning random numbers to user space is
> necessarily a great idea.. That said, I think we already do it for unnamed
> pipes anyway, so I'm more wondering if we should have some way to map
> these numbews (in user space) to a valid thing, so that they wouldn't just
> be random numbers.
That just means someone has to implement a trivial ->getattr wrapper for
sockfs that zeroes out the st_dev field.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-22 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-21 23:46 Andries.Brouwer
2002-11-21 23:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-22 0:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-22 1:18 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-11-22 1:34 Andries.Brouwer
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