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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	"mguzik@redhat.com" <mguzik@redhat.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] fs: initialize resize_wait wait queue of init task
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 02:47:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170517014719.GV390@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170517002519epcms1p31ef6730545cfb4652beab890a047805a@epcms1p3>

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:25:19AM +0000, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> > I am curious, what kind of kernel threads are using file table ?
> > Thanks.
> 
> I don't know all the cases of that.
> But, in the embedded world, a lot of device drivers or kernel daemons are
> opening the files to just watch and read,
> or to write some log data.

Sure, but WTF would they want file descriptors for that?  All primitives
use struct file * anyway, so...

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-17  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20170516064030epcas1p238af57ce4223442c821948621897d780@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2017-05-16  6:40 ` [PATCH] fs: initialize resize_wait wait queue of init task Daeho Jeong
2017-05-16 14:10   ` Eric Dumazet
     [not found]   ` <CGME20170516064030epcas1p238af57ce4223442c821948621897d780@epcms1p3>
2017-05-17  0:25     ` Daeho Jeong
2017-05-17  1:47       ` Al Viro [this message]
     [not found]       ` <CGME20170516064030epcas1p238af57ce4223442c821948621897d780@epcms1p8>
2017-05-17  1:52         ` Daeho Jeong

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