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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:45:11 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> Cc: neilb@...e.de, david@...morbit.com, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, hch@...radead.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, adilger@....com, corbet@....net, serue@...ibm.com, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, sfrench@...ibm.com, philippe.deniel@....FR, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -V14 0/11] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 03:35:50PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > If you use sys or proc, is it possible to get the uuid from a file > > > > descriptor or pathname without races? > > > > > > You can do stat/fstat to find out the device number (which is unique, > > > but not persistent) > > > > Is it really unique over time? (Can't a given st_dev value map to one > > filesystem now, and another later?) > > It's unique at a single point in time. But if you have a reference > (e.g. open file descriptor) on the mount then that's not a problem. > > fd = open(path, ...); > fstat(fd, &st); > search st.st_dev in mountinfo > close(fd) > > is effectively the same as an getuuid(path) syscall (lazy unmounted > filesystems will not be found in mountinfo, but the reference is still > there so st_dev will not be reused for other filesystems). OK, cool. That still leaves the problem that there isn't always an underlying block device, and/or when there is it doesn't always uniquely specify the filesystem. --b. -- 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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