Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> Most likely he means a per-open(2) opaque datum that is kept in
> >> struct file and passed to the underlying routines.
> >
> >Sorry, unbelievably bad at explaining myself. Per-open data is what i
> >meant. The reason I'm interested is it would make a full nvidia driver
> >port quite a bit easier.
> 
> Sorry, I know of no current plans which adress this.
> 
> The issue is non-trivial to fix because we currently don't pass
> dup(2) events through the vnode layer.

Are you sure this is even necessary?

They are talking about "per-open", not "per-fd-instance" data,
which could easily exclude dup, dup2, and fcntl(f_DUPFD).

-- Terry

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