Re: [PATCH] get rid of vm_private_data and win posix shm

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:50:48 +0000 (GMT)

> I implemented posix shm with its own namespace by extending filp_open
> and do_unlink by an additional parameter for the root inode.
> Also extending this to a complete filesystem should be easy (but not
> my target).

It would seem that the best way to fix the inelegance of the patch - the
shm_open and shm_unlink syscalls, the hacks on filp_open etc would be to do
exactly that - make it a real fs, at least for open/unlink/openddir/readdir
even if not for read/write

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