Neil Brown wrote:
>
>
>Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I
>don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open
>"/foo" and get filedescriptor N, then
> /proc/self/fds/N-meta
>is a directory which contains all the meta stuff for "/foo".
>Then it is trivial to get the 'meta' stuff given a filedescriptor and
>if you have a pathname, you can always get yourself a filedescriptor.
>
>
This sound like it might be cute, but filedescriptors are too heavy
weight for stat data accesses in quantity.
In general, the whole file handle paradigm is too heavy for lightweight
files.
Hans
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