Re: [patch 2/5] VFS: pass open file to ->getattr()

[Andreas Dilger]

On Sep 21, 2007  14:23 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> @@ -1212,7 +1212,8 @@ struct inode_operations {
> -	int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *, struct kstat *);
> +	int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *, struct kstat *,
> +			struct file *file);

It's not much of an inode operation anymore if you need to pass a file
to it...  Since the attributes are really part of the inode and not
the file, this seems like a bit of a hack.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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