Re: [PATCH] vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:50:37 +0000
Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:47:02PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > Yeah that would be cleaner on the wire for the create case. It's not
> > clear to me how to implement that though. There doesn't appear to be
> > a straightforward way to tell the VFS to skip the truncate.
> 
> The plan is to turn most of the guts of do_last() into fs method...

Thanks Al, that makes sense.

Does the patch I've proposed look reasonable in the interim?
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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