Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:40:26 +1000 | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins |
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On Tuesday July 12, ninja@slaphack.com wrote: > > > > Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I > > don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open > > "/foo" and get filedescriptor N, then > > /proc/self/fds/N-meta > > How am I supposed to get there with a shell script?
function get_meta() { var=$1 file=$2 meta=$3 val=`cat /proc/self/fd/3-meta/$meta < $file` eval var=\$val }
then get_meta varname /home/foo/bar username
will read the 'username' meta-file of 'home/foo/bar' and place it in varname.
Is that what you wanted?
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