On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 10:10:23AM +0100, Donald Buczek wrote:
> On 12/12/23 06:53, Dave Chinner wrote:
>
> > So can someone please explain to me why we need to try to re-invent
> > a generic filehandle concept in statx when we already have a
> > have working and widely supported user API that provides exactly
> > this functionality?
>
> name_to_handle_at() is fine, but userspace could profit from being
> able to retrieve the filehandle together with the other metadata in
> a single system call.
Can you say more? What, specifically is the application that would
want to do that, and is it really in such a hot path that it would be
a user-visible improveable, let aloine something that can be actually
be measured?
- Ted
