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...

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