From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] fsconfig: rename FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE to FSCONFIG_CMD_OBTAIN
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:23:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfpegueVku24snfr+RwdsdzLc_s5VrS1=TPhTJp6Tw1ZPf=PQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17547.1537542706@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 5:11 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> The old name strongly implies that a new superblock will be created from
>> the fs_context. This is not true: filesystems are free to retuse an
>> existing superblock and return that (for good reason).
>
> Kind of like open(O_CREAT) only ever creates files, right;-)
>
> Actually, FSCONFIG_CMD_OPEN might be a better name.
We've already opened the context with fsopen() and about to open a
file referring to a subtree with fsmount(). And this one doesn't
actually involve opening any files, so IMO it should not be called
_OPEN.
Thanks,
Miklos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-21 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-20 15:12 [PATCH 0/6] mount-api: fixes and cleanups Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] selinux: fold superblock_doinit() into only caller Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] vfs_submount: use SB_SUBMOUNT instead of MS_SUBMOUNT Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] mount: fix regression in setting "subtype" from legacy API Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] fsconfig: parse "subtype" param for old internal API Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] fsmount: do not use legacy MS_ flags Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-20 15:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] fsconfig: rename FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE to FSCONFIG_CMD_OBTAIN Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 14:41 ` [PATCH 1/6] selinux: fold superblock_doinit() into only caller David Howells
2018-09-21 14:45 ` [PATCH 2/6] vfs_submount: use SB_SUBMOUNT instead of MS_SUBMOUNT David Howells
2018-09-21 14:52 ` [PATCH 3/6] mount: fix regression in setting "subtype" from legacy API David Howells
2018-09-21 14:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] fsconfig: parse "subtype" param for old internal API David Howells
2018-09-21 15:07 ` [PATCH 5/6] fsmount: do not use legacy MS_ flags David Howells
2018-09-21 15:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-09-21 15:37 ` David Howells
2018-09-21 15:54 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-21 16:52 ` David Howells
2018-09-22 13:21 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-22 15:48 ` David Howells
2018-09-22 16:14 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-23 22:45 ` David Howells
2018-09-23 23:01 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-24 6:50 ` David Howells
2018-09-24 9:47 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-24 12:37 ` David Howells
2018-09-24 13:18 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-21 15:11 ` [PATCH 6/6] fsconfig: rename FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE to FSCONFIG_CMD_OBTAIN David Howells
2018-09-21 15:23 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2018-09-21 16:44 ` [PATCH 0/6] mount-api: fixes and cleanups David Howells
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