linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]

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Message-ID: <14219.1531325881@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:18:01 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

> A minor detail but ... the "r" operation mentioned above is not actually
> implemented in this system call.

Yeah, that's something I'd like to add.  NFS4 already does this inside its
->mount() method, so my thought is that we might be able to move this from
there to the core.

David