Re: [RFC][PATCH] extended attributes

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 20:38:17 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think it would be better to have a statefull readdir instead.
> The kernel supports it via the ->private_data field of struct file
> (not through fork,but that looks like a generic vfs bug)

??? fork() just copies references to struct file.

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