open cookies

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Mon Nov 17 09:29:25 PST 2003


* Alexander Kabaev <ak03 at gte.com> [031117 08:06] wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:22:58 -0800
> Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If you're unclear as to what I'm talking about, what I mean is the
> > "private_data" field in Linux's "struct file".
> 
> How do you plan to deal with stacked FSes? 

Wouldn't the stacking layer be responsible for taking care of the lower
layer's cookie?

struct nullfscookie {
	void *lowercookie;
};

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