Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:14:10PM -0700, Jann Horn wrote:

> I also love ioctls, so I think you could also use an ioctl to do the
> commit? You can do anything (well, almost anything) that you can do in
> syscall context in ioctl context, too; and when you already have a
> file descriptor of a specific type that you want to perform an
> operation on, an ioctl works just fine.

Poe's Law in action...