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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Pascal Bouchareine <kalou@tfz.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc,fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 23:10:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200725221022.GQ2786714@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200725004043.32326-1-kalou@tfz.net>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 05:40:43PM -0700, Pascal Bouchareine wrote:
> This command attaches a description to a file descriptor for
> troubleshooting purposes. The free string is displayed in the
> process fdinfo file for that fd /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd.
> 
> One intended usage is to allow processes to self-document sockets
> for netstat and friends to report

Have you even tried to test it?  When will it ever free those things?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-25 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-25  0:40 [PATCH] proc,fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION Pascal Bouchareine
2020-07-25  4:59 ` [PATCH v2] " Pascal Bouchareine
2020-07-25  5:15   ` [PATCH v3] This command attaches a description to a file descriptor for troubleshooting purposes. The free string is displayed in the process fdinfo file for that fd /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd Pascal Bouchareine
2020-07-26  2:11     ` Pascal Bouchareine
2020-07-25  5:22   ` [PATCH v3] proc,fcntl: introduce F_SET_DESCRIPTION Pascal Bouchareine
2020-07-27 14:21     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2020-07-28  1:39       ` Pascal Bouchareine
2020-07-28  6:25         ` Pascal Bouchareine
2020-07-25 22:10 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-07-26  1:42   ` [PATCH] " Pascal Bouchareine

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