Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd) | Date | 8 Jan 1999 23:10:19 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.990105114326.15802A-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>, Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>In the case that iopen() was included, I think that istat() would be >pretty handy, too...
Whyso? I'd think that
int fd = iopen({magic_inode_handle}, {mode}); fstat(fd,{stat});
would work just as well, and would reduce the number of places where you'd need to expose {magic_inode_handle}s to the outside world.
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