source: GPL/trunk/include/linux/file.h

Last change on this file was 679, checked in by David Azarewicz, 4 years ago

Merge changes from Paul's uniaud32next branch.

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[32]1/*
2 * Wrapper functions for accessing the file_struct fd array.
3 */
4
5#ifndef __LINUX_FILE_H
6#define __LINUX_FILE_H
7
[679]8#include <linux/types.h>
9
10struct fd {
11 struct file *file;
12 int need_put;
13};
14
[32]15extern void _fput(struct file *);
16
17/*
18 * Check whether the specified task has the fd open. Since the task
19 * may not have a files_struct, we must test for p->files != NULL.
20 */
21extern struct file * fcheck_task(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int fd);
22
23/*
24 * Check whether the specified fd has an open file.
25 */
26extern inline struct file * fcheck(unsigned int fd);
27
28extern inline struct file * frip(unsigned int fd);
29
30extern inline struct file * fget(unsigned int fd);
31
32/*
33 * 23/12/1998 Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@cs.net.pl>:
34 *
35 * Since those functions where calling other functions, it was compleatly
36 * bogous to make them all "extern inline".
37 *
38 * The removal of this pseudo optimization saved me scandaleous:
39 *
40 * 3756 (i386 arch)
41 *
42 * precious bytes from my kernel, even without counting all the code compiled
43 * as module!
44 *
45 * I suspect there are many other similar "optimizations" across the
46 * kernel...
47 */
48extern inline void fput(struct file * file);
49extern void put_filp(struct file *);
50
51/*
52 * Install a file pointer in the fd array.
53 *
54 * The VFS is full of places where we drop the files lock between
55 * setting the open_fds bitmap and installing the file in the file
56 * array. At any such point, we are vulnerable to a dup2() race
57 * installing a file in the array before us. We need to detect this and
58 * fput() the struct file we are about to overwrite in this case.
59 */
60
61extern inline void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file * file);
62
63#endif /* __LINUX_FILE_H */
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