From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] F_GETPATH for linux
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:41:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804131839010.12741@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804140300.05719.arnd@arndb.de>
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > I was working on some bsd/linux compatibility code, and I noticed that we
> > do not have F_GETPATH. I know we can readlink /proc/PID/fd/FD (that is
> > what I'm doing now, under #ifdef), but I gave a patch a shot anyway.
> > Here it is, building but untested ...
>
> I reviewed the code path for compat_sys_fcntl{,64} for this patch, looks
> good in that respect.
>
> > +error:
> > + free_page((unsigned long) buf);
> > + return size;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(fcntl_getpath);
> > +
>
> Procfs cannot be a module, and there are no other users of this function,
> so why do you export it?
Springtime export fever? :)
I dropped the export. I'll repost as soon as I've five minutes to reboot
my box (to test the thing a little).
- Davide
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-14 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 22:00 Davide Libenzi
2008-04-14 1:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-14 1:41 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2008-04-14 5:34 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-14 17:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2008-04-14 6:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 11:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-14 14:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-14 17:34 ` Davide Libenzi
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