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| author | Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-01-29 18:43:26 +0530 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-15 02:21:37 -0400 |
| commit | 990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be (patch) | |
| tree | af273c4bfbfd0342d39d05d5a017382eb32a7538 /init | |
| parent | f52e0c11305aa09ed56cad97ffc8f0cdc3d78b5d (diff) | |
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vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support
The syscall also return mount id which can be used
to lookup file system specific information such as uuid
in /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index be788c0957d4..e72fa17fe559 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available at <http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/>. +config FHANDLE + bool "open by fhandle syscalls" + select EXPORTFS + help + If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map + file names to handle and then later use the handle for + different file system operations. This is useful in implementing + userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead + of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names + get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) + syscalls. + config TASKSTATS bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NET |