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Date:	Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:40:05 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@...allels.com>,
	Anand Avati <avati@...ster.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael j Theall <mtheall@...ibm.com>,
	fuse-devel <fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] fuse: handle release synchronously (v4)

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Look around for AIO. Look around for the loop driver. Look around for
> a number of things that do "fget()" and that you completely ignored.

.. actually, there are more instances of "get_file()" than of
"fget()", the aio one just happened to be the latter form. Lots and
lots of ways to get ahold of a file descriptor that keeps it open past
the "last close".

               Linus
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