Re: [patch 1/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - anonymoush inode source ...

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 19:03:55 EST



On Mar 9 2007 15:39, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
>This patch add an anonymous inode source, to be used for files that need
>and inode only in order to create a file*. We do not care of having an
>inode for each file, and we do not even care of having different names in
>the associated dentries (dentry names will be same for classes of file*).
>This allow code reuse, and will be used by epoll, signalfd and timerfd
>(and whatever else there'll be).

Perhaps procfs?



Jan
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