Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On 10/16/15 4:44 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > We can argue about api for 2nd, whether it's mount with fd=1234 string
> > or else, but for the first mount style doesn't make sense.
>
> Why does mount not make sense?  It is exactly what you are looking for
> so why does it not make sense?

hmm, how do you get a new fd back after mounting it?
Note, open cannot be overloaded, so we end up with BPF_NEW_FD anyway,
but now it's more convoluted and empty mounts are everywhere.

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