Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks

[Aneesh Kumar K. V]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:30:57 -0400, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Suddenly getting an file pointer for a symlink which could never happen
> before is a really bad idea.  Just add a proper readlink_by_handle
> system call, similar to what's done in the XFS interface.

It is not just readlink that we would need. We would require

   sys_handle_readlink, sys_handle_stat64, sys_handle_link, sys_handle_chown,
   sys_handle_setxattr, sys_handle_getxattr, sys_handle_listxattr,
   sys_handle_removexattr, sys_handle_utimes, compat_sys_handle_utimes

I have most of the changes done, so if we are ok adding all these
new syscalls i can post the patch series.

-aneesh

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