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VFS changes

From:  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To:  akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject:  [patch 0/5] VFS changes
Date:  Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:23:43 +0200
Message-ID:  <20070921122343.307289079@szeredi.hu>
Cc:  hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Hi,

Here's a bunch a VFS interface changes that are needed to implement
some FUSE features.

The biggest part is patches 1-3, which pass the open file to the
filesystem for syscalls passed an file descriptor, such as fstat(),
fchmod(), etc...  These patches touch a lot of filesystems, but
otherwise quite simple and actually source and binary backward
compatible.

Christoph, can you please take a quick look at the patches, if the
interface changes are OK?

Thanks,
Miklos
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