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| author |   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2018-06-17 14:15:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2018-07-12 10:04:28 -0400 |
| commit | 183266f26f45a47958afb5c9aa1b3d4651e2eb8c (patch) | |
| tree | c420683235aab835020701a456a62cd786a02c68 /include/linux/file.h | |
| parent | create_pipe_files(): switch the first allocation to alloc_file_pseudo() (diff) | |
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new helper: alloc_file_clone()
alloc_file_clone(old_file, mode, ops): create a new struct file with
->f_path equal to that of old_file. pipe converted.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/file.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/file.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h index 5b25388f2f79..60914843c737 100644 --- a/include/linux/file.h +++ b/include/linux/file.h @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ extern struct file *alloc_file(const struct path *, int flags, const struct file_operations *fop); extern struct file *alloc_file_pseudo(struct inode *, struct vfsmount *, const char *, int flags, const struct file_operations *); +extern struct file *alloc_file_clone(struct file *, int flags, + const struct file_operations *); static inline void fput_light(struct file *file, int fput_needed) { |