On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:17:24 +0200 (MEST)
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Show the fill status of a pipe (in bytes) when stat'ing one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
>  fs/stat.c             |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/un.h    |    2 ++
>  include/net/af_unix.h |    3 +++
>  net/unix/af_unix.c    |   10 ++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Please dont do that, adding uggly tests in generic_fillattr()

The following patch does the right thing for pipes, I let you doing the same 
for sockets...

[PATCH] : fill the size of pipes

Instead of reporting 0 in size when stating() a pipe, we give the number of 
queued bytes. This might avoid using ioctl(FIONREAD) to get this information.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm3/fs/pipe.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc5-mm3/fs/pipe.c
@@ -570,27 +570,34 @@ bad_pipe_w(struct file *filp, const char
        return -EBADF;
 }
 
+static int pipe_size(struct inode *inode)
+{
+       struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
+       int count, buf, nrbufs;
+
+       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       pipe = inode->i_pipe;
+       count = 0;
+       buf = pipe->curbuf;
+       nrbufs = pipe->nrbufs;
+       while (--nrbufs >= 0) {
+               count += pipe->bufs[buf].len;
+               buf = (buf+1) & (PIPE_BUFFERS-1);
+       }
+       mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       return count;
+}
+
 static int
 pipe_ioctl(struct inode *pino, struct file *filp,
           unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
        struct inode *inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-       struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
-       int count, buf, nrbufs;
+       int count;
 
        switch (cmd) {
                case FIONREAD:
-                       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-                       pipe = inode->i_pipe;
-                       count = 0;
-                       buf = pipe->curbuf;
-                       nrbufs = pipe->nrbufs;
-                       while (--nrbufs >= 0) {
-                               count += pipe->bufs[buf].len;
-                               buf = (buf+1) & (PIPE_BUFFERS-1);
-                       }
-                       mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
+                       count = pipe_size(inode);
                        return put_user(count, (int __user *)arg);
                default:
                        return -EINVAL;
@@ -908,6 +915,20 @@ static struct dentry_operations pipefs_d
        .d_dname        = pipefs_dname,
 };
 
+int pipe_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry,
+                  struct kstat *stat)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+
+       generic_fillattr(inode, stat);
+       stat->size = pipe_size(inode);
+       return 0;
+}
+
+const struct inode_operations pipe_inode_operations = {
+       .getattr = pipe_getattr,
+};
+
 static struct inode * get_pipe_inode(void)
 {
        struct inode *inode = new_inode(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb);
@@ -921,6 +942,7 @@ static struct inode * get_pipe_inode(voi
                goto fail_iput;
        inode->i_pipe = pipe;
 
+       inode->i_op = &pipe_inode_operations;
        pipe->readers = pipe->writers = 1;
        inode->i_fop = &rdwr_pipe_fops;
 
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