Re: [question] why does pipefs bother to build unique filenames?

[Jamie Lokier]

Alexander Viro wrote:
> Drat... Tigran, that's for procfs. No, still not there. And sprintf()
> overhead is a non-issue here - it's a noise compared to any of memory
> allocations going on.

But you _could_ put the sprintf in procfs for dentries with namelen=0
:-)  It might even be a good idea, because it lets you make sure the
format of unnamed dentries is consistent.

- Jamie