On 4/14/08, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
>  > On Monday 14 April 2008, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>  > > I was working on some bsd/linux compatibility code, and I noticed that we
>  > > do not have F_GETPATH. I know we can readlink /proc/PID/fd/FD (that is
>  > > what I'm doing now, under #ifdef), but I gave a patch a shot anyway.
>  > > Here it is, building but untested ...
>  >
>  > I reviewed the code path for compat_sys_fcntl{,64} for this patch, looks
>  > good in that respect.
>  >
>  > > +error:
>  > > +   free_page((unsigned long) buf);
>  > > +   return size;
>  > > +}
>  > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(fcntl_getpath);
>  > > +
>  >
>  > Procfs cannot be a module, and there are no other users of this function,
>  > so why do you export it?
>
>
> Springtime export fever? :)
>  I dropped the export. I'll repost as soon as I've five minutes to reboot
>  my box (to test the thing a little).

Davide,

Please CC me on all kernel-userland API changes, so that I can watch
for changes that may be needed for man-pages.

Cheers,

Michael

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