From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764597AbXGVM02 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:26:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758947AbXGVM0U (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:26:20 -0400 Received: from web57701.mail.re3.yahoo.com ([68.142.236.53]:28559 "HELO web57701.mail.re3.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757966AbXGVM0U convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:26:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=dK0thGACw4CSfdqK8UHWlmJ+cfvGsbVsrjNqu9aZkVYXMr3MF00GURJW5C6lQGflWTqzAXRyNlinkrLVnL2D8NNl13hCUg3PWog1TskqqmNalhh8NDiUClLyvKX6M3bm6vqHIzXEY51J3k/d45vD+48htI3CLSeDjotBLgd7YEM=; X-YMail-OSG: LLI4tnQVM1lrnz5TpjaQz9LTKTSX3VmHn_Q1.iau6VHytcAgCxhFraPK0UkUO8vzYA-- X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/651.41 YahooMailWebService/0.7.119 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:26:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jacob A Subject: Re: 2.4 Q: list of open files per inode? To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Al Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-ID: <35493.81201.qm@web57701.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I want to keep an internal state per each registration instance, and I opted to use open() as the registration mechanism. -Jacob ----- Original Message ---- From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jacob A Cc: Al Viro ; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:58:18 PM Subject: Re: 2.4 Q: list of open files per inode? On Jul 22 2007 04:39, Jacob A wrote: >I'm using the open/close call as a way for processes to >register/unregister with a watchdog driver that I'm writing. I >thought that I can save the housekeeping within the driver, but it >looks like It would be easier just to maintain my own list and be >done with it. Sounds a bit wrong. _What_ exactly do you want to keep? Jan --