On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:28:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > IOW, what the hell is that horror for? You do realize, for example, that > there's > such thing as dup(), right? And dup2() as well. And while we are at it, how > do you keep track of removals, considering the fact that you can stick a file > reference into SCM_RIGHTS datagram sent to yourself, close descriptors and an > hour > later pick that datagram, suddenly getting descriptor back? > > Besides, "I have no descriptors left" != "I can't be currently sitting in the > middle > of syscall on that sucker"; close() does *NOT* terminate ongoing operations. > > You are looking at the drastically wrong abstraction level. Please, describe > what > it is that you are trying to achieve.
_IF_ it's "who keeps a particularly long-lived sucker pinned", I would suggest fuser(1) run when you detect that kind of long-lived dmabuf. With events generated by their constructors and destructors, and detection of longevity done based on that. But that's only a semi-blind guess at the things you are trying to achieve; please, describe what it really is.
