linux-kernel - Re: get_unused_fd and get_unused_fd

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Message-ID: <20120622094702.GD14083@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:47:02 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Ozan ??a??layan <ozancag@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mcgrof@...nel.org
Subject: Re: get_unused_fd and get_unused_fd_flags

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:33:35PM +0300, Ozan ??a??layan wrote:
> But get_unused_fd_flags() is implemented through a macro:
> 
> #define get_unused_fd_flags(flags) alloc_fd(0, (flags))
> 
> Both are wrappers around alloc_fd(). I'm quite new to this stuff but
> why there's an asymmetry in here? One is exposed, the other is not.

Because get_unused_fd_flags() never had been exported.  And
default policy for exports is "Don't, unless somebody can
demonstrate a clear need that can't be handled in other
ways".

> (BTW: I'm doing compat-drm stuff for GSoC and I have to call
> get_unused_fd_flags() but since alloc_fd() is not exported, this
> doesn't work.)

Details of that "have to", please.  Note that existing modular uses of
get_unused_fd() tend to be rather fishy; if anything, I'd expect
get_unused_fd() eventually becoming internal-only, if we manage to
pull that off.
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