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SubjectRe: file metadata via fs API (was: [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information)
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:05 AM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> > {
> > int fd, attrfd;
> >
> > fd = open(path, O_PATH);
> > attrfd = openat(fd, name, O_ALT);
> > close(fd);
> > read(attrfd, value, size);
> > close(attrfd);
> > }
>
> Please don't go down this path. You're proposing five syscalls - including
> creating two file descriptors - to do what fsinfo() does in one.

So what? People argued against readfile() for exactly the opposite of
reasons, even though that's a lot less specialized than fsinfo().

Worried about performance? Io-uring will allow you to do all those
five syscalls (or many more) with just one I/O submission.

Thanks,
Miklos

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