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Re: patches to move sys_getfh to vfs_syscalls.c?



Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se> writes:
> NetBSD and FreeBSD already has them. xfs already implements their
> own variants of them. It's really useful for applications that store
> a lot of files and don't need care about their names (web caches,
> news servers, Arla, Coda, etc.).  This way we save them the effort
> of lookup (very expensive operation) and save the name cache for
> those who need it.

Apart from the need for it, did you have any opinion on the patches? :-)

/assar