[CC-ing Al too]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, 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.

I believe Al changed the interface to not give out inode* and file*, *and* 
call fd_install() inside it. I'd slightly prefer Al version, although I 
don't see any major problems in this one too.



- Davide



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