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| author | Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-01-29 18:43:25 +0530 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-14 09:15:28 -0400 |
| commit | 5fe0c2378884e68beb532f5890cc0e3539ac747b (patch) | |
| tree | be25414052184e146049ea6466854366559d5528 /include/linux/exportfs.h | |
| parent | c8b91accfa1059d5565443193d89572eca2f5dd6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5fe0c2378884e68beb532f5890cc0e3539ac747b.tar.gz lwn-5fe0c2378884e68beb532f5890cc0e3539ac747b.zip | |
exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size
The exportfs encode handle function should return the minimum required
handle size. This helps user to find out the handle size by passing 0
handle size in the first step and then redoing to the call again with
the returned handle size value.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/exportfs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/exportfs.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/exportfs.h b/include/linux/exportfs.h index 28028988c862..65afdfd31b7b 100644 --- a/include/linux/exportfs.h +++ b/include/linux/exportfs.h @@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ struct fid { * set, the encode_fh() should store sufficient information so that a good * attempt can be made to find not only the file but also it's place in the * filesystem. This typically means storing a reference to de->d_parent in - * the filehandle fragment. encode_fh() should return the number of bytes - * stored or a negative error code such as %-ENOSPC + * the filehandle fragment. encode_fh() should return the fileid_type on + * success and on error returns 255 (if the space needed to encode fh is + * greater than @max_len*4 bytes). On error @max_len contains the minimum + * size(in 4 byte unit) needed to encode the file handle. * * fh_to_dentry: * @fh_to_dentry is given a &struct super_block (@sb) and a file handle |