On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:16:02AM -0800, 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.
IMO that's a bad idea - majority of callers only care about fd and burdening them with fd_install() is simply wrong. Separate helper function... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel