This is a small patch to support BSD's F_GETPATH on Linux. I removed the 
unneeded export, like Arnd pointed out.
IMO the simplicity of the patch and the portability advantages makes it 
worth it. I'll leave to others to further comments it.
Built and tested on my box against 2.6.25-rc9. Simple test program here:

http://www.xmailserver.org/fgetpath-test.c



Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>


- Davide


---
 fs/fcntl.c                  |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/proc/base.c              |   26 +-------------------------
 include/asm-generic/fcntl.h |    1 +
 include/linux/fs.h          |    1 +
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/fcntl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/fs/fcntl.c	2008-04-13 15:01:09.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/fs/fcntl.c	2008-04-13 18:37:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -316,6 +316,28 @@
 	return pid;
 }
 
+int fcntl_getpath(struct path *fpath, char __user *path, int maxsize)
+{
+	int size;
+	char *buf, *pathname;
+
+	buf = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	pathname = d_path(fpath, buf, PAGE_SIZE);
+	size = PTR_ERR(pathname);
+	if (IS_ERR(pathname))
+		goto error;
+	size = buf + PAGE_SIZE - 1 - pathname;
+	if (size > maxsize)
+		size = maxsize;
+	if (copy_to_user(path, pathname, size))
+		size = -EFAULT;
+error:
+	free_page((unsigned long) buf);
+	return size;
+}
+
 static long do_fcntl(int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg,
 		struct file *filp)
 {
@@ -381,6 +403,10 @@
 	case F_NOTIFY:
 		err = fcntl_dirnotify(fd, filp, arg);
 		break;
+	case F_GETPATH:
+		err = fcntl_getpath(&filp->f_path, (char __user *) arg,
+				    PATH_MAX);
+		break;
 	default:
 		break;
 	}
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h	2008-04-13 15:01:09.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h	2008-04-13 18:37:35.000000000 -0700
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 #define F_SETSIG	10	/* for sockets. */
 #define F_GETSIG	11	/* for sockets. */
 #endif
+#define F_GETPATH	12
 
 /* for F_[GET|SET]FL */
 #define FD_CLOEXEC	1	/* actually anything with low bit set goes */
Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/proc/base.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/fs/proc/base.c	2008-04-13 15:01:09.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/fs/proc/base.c	2008-04-13 18:37:35.000000000 -0700
@@ -1192,30 +1192,6 @@
 	return ERR_PTR(error);
 }
 
-static int do_proc_readlink(struct path *path, char __user *buffer, int buflen)
-{
-	char *tmp = (char*)__get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
-	char *pathname;
-	int len;
-
-	if (!tmp)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	pathname = d_path(path, tmp, PAGE_SIZE);
-	len = PTR_ERR(pathname);
-	if (IS_ERR(pathname))
-		goto out;
-	len = tmp + PAGE_SIZE - 1 - pathname;
-
-	if (len > buflen)
-		len = buflen;
-	if (copy_to_user(buffer, pathname, len))
-		len = -EFAULT;
- out:
-	free_page((unsigned long)tmp);
-	return len;
-}
-
 static int proc_pid_readlink(struct dentry * dentry, char __user * buffer, int buflen)
 {
 	int error = -EACCES;
@@ -1230,7 +1206,7 @@
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
 
-	error = do_proc_readlink(&path, buffer, buflen);
+	error = fcntl_getpath(&path, buffer, buflen);
 	path_put(&path);
 out:
 	return error;
Index: linux-2.6.mod/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.mod.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2008-04-13 15:01:09.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.mod/include/linux/fs.h	2008-04-13 18:37:35.000000000 -0700
@@ -960,6 +960,7 @@
 /* only for net: no internal synchronization */
 extern void __kill_fasync(struct fasync_struct *, int, int);
 
+extern int fcntl_getpath(struct path *fpath, char __user *path, int maxsize);
 extern int __f_setown(struct file *filp, struct pid *, enum pid_type, int force);
 extern int f_setown(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg, int force);
 extern void f_delown(struct file *filp);
--
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