Re: patches to move sys_getfh to vfs_syscalls.c?

[Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>]

Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> writes:

> 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? :-)

Looks good. I say commit it, but we might want to wait for someone else
to look at them too.

Of course there is also a need for changes to unistd.h, man-pages, and
stubs in libc.

//art