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exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size

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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>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-01-29 18:43:25 +05:30
committed by Al Viro
parent c8b91accfa
commit 5fe0c23788
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@@ -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