Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] close_range()

[Al Viro]

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 12:27:40AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> What about orthogonality of interfaces?
> 
> 	fdmap()
> 	bulk_close()
> 
> Now fdmap() can be reused for lsof/criu and it is only 2 system calls
> for close-everything usecase which is OK because readdir is 4(!) minimum:
> 
> 	open
> 	getdents
> 	getdents() = 0
> 	close
> 
> Writing all of this I understood how fdmap can be made more faster which
> neither getdents() nor even read() have the luxury of: it can return
> a flag if more data is available so that application would do next fdmap()
> only if truly necessary.

Tactless question: what has traumatised you so badly about string operations?
Because that seems to be the common denominator to a lot of things...