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kern/57277: struct fileops should have .fo_advlock and .fo_pathconf
>Number: 57277
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: struct fileops should have .fo_advlock and .fo_pathconf
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 18 16:05:00 +0000 2023
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell
>Release: current
>Organization:
The NetBSD Flockation
>Environment:
choking on the fumes of millennia past exhumed from the earth
>Description:
The fcntl F_SETLKW, F_SETLK, and F_GETLK commands, and the flock system call, are implemented by a test for the type of the file descriptor (DTYPE_VNODE) and direct calls to VOP_ADVLOCK.
This creates an unnecessary coupling between the file descriptor and syscall components of the system, and the vfs/vnode components of the system.
The same goes for the fpathconf system call, which also applies to sockets and pipes, not just files in a file system with VOP_PATHCONF.
Instead, like we did for VOP_SEEK with .fo_seek, we should push these into struct fileops with .fo_advlock and .fo_pathconf methods:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2021/09/11/msg132205.html
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to build rump kernel without -lrumpvfs.
>Fix:
Yes, please!
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