Roland Dreier wrote: > The anonymous inodes interface anon_inode_getfd() calls fd_install() > for the newly created fd, which does not work for some use cases where > the caller must do futher initialization before exposing the file to > userspace. This is also probably not the safest interface, since the > caller must be sure that it is OK if userspace closes the fd before > anon_inode_getfd() even returns. > > Therefore, change the anonymous inodes interface so that the caller is > responsible for calling fd_install(), and change the name of the > function from anon_inode_getfd() to anon_inode_allocfd() so that any > code using the old interface breaks at compilation rather than failing > in a strange way. Fix up all the in-kernel users to use the new > interface. > >
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