linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] fcntl: introduce F_SET

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Message-ID: <CAGbU3_kOhXEx2s19P==F2-CyHFGbX_qKVWhPi+kPe3tmsY=HfA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:48:55 -0700
From:   Pascal Bouchareine <kalou@....net>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:28 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> > One intended usage is to allow processes to self-document sockets
> > for netstat and friends to report
>
> NAK.  There is no way we're going to bloat a criticial structure like
> struct file for some vanity information like this.

The useful case is for sockets - Is there a more suited place to do that?
Do you think adding a setsockopt and sk_description to struct sock
would work, or would be considered the same?