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Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0804142334w23a0f492we6b0a47ebee055f7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:34:42 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "Davide Libenzi" <davidel@...ilserver.org>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>, "Al Viro" <viro@....linux.org.uk>, "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [patch] F_GETPATH implementation (rev 2) On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > This is a small patch to support BSD's F_GETPATH on Linux. > > IMO the simplicity of the patch and the portability advantages makes it > > worth it. I'll leave to others to further comments it. > > So, I'd like to know who (if anybody) really uses F_GETPATH. Davide described this as "BSD's F_GETPATH". It's worth clarifying that more accurately this is "MacOS's F_GETPATH". I can't find any trace of F_GETPATH on Net/Open/FreeBSD, Solaris doesn't seem to have it either, and none of the other systems I checked has it either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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