On 4/14/08, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
quoted text > 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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Re: [patch] F_GETPATH for linux , Michael Kerrisk , (Sun Apr 13, 10:34 pm)