On Tuesday July 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I > > don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open > > "/foo" and get filedescriptor N, then > > /proc/self/fds/N-meta > > How am I supposed to get there with a shell script?
function get_meta() { var=$1 file=$2 meta=$3 val=`cat /proc/self/fd/3-meta/$meta < $file` eval var=\$val } then get_meta varname /home/foo/bar username will read the 'username' meta-file of 'home/foo/bar' and place it in varname. Is that what you wanted? NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/