Re: Should struct inode be made available to userspace?

[Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel _at_ xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 1/3/2004 06:57 PM +0000, viro _at_ parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:39:41PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>Moving the definitions is fine, but some user programs, like backup 
>>programs, do benefit from direct interpretation of the inode. Clearly 
>>that's not a normal user program, but this information is not only useful 
>>inside the kernel.
>
>No, they do not.  They care about on-disk structures, not the in-core ones 
>fs driver happens to build.

They may if trying to do an online backup of open files, especially if 
attempting to maintain transactional integrity (i.e. make the backup 
logically atomic).

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Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel _at_ cesmail.net> 


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