From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] F_GETPATH implementation (rev 2)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:41:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804141931070.2879@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804141700010.6238@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> This is a small patch to support BSD's F_GETPATH on Linux.
> IMO the simplicity of the patch and the portability advantages makes it
> worth it. I'll leave to others to further comments it.
So, I'd like to know who (if anybody) really uses F_GETPATH.
I think the patch is simple enough, and if there is a real program that is
worth porting for which this actually matters, I don't really see any
downsides. But I'd like to hear more about it, and I also wonder if others
do it differently.
Also, are there any other interfaces that other OS's use for this, do you
know? Would be good to know before/if we decide to support something like
this..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 0:35 Davide Libenzi
2008-04-15 2:41 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-04-15 6:34 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-15 17:43 ` Davide Libenzi
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