[PATCH 2/6] libxfs/linux.c: Replace use of ustat by stat

[Felix Janda]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 06:42:41PM +0100, Felix Janda wrote:
> > Is this really performance relevant?
> 
> I'm not entirely sure.  There are systems with giant amounts of mounted
> file systems, in which case iterating each of them and requiring
> multiple syscalls each might not be a good idea.

Of course, it is not very elegant...

> > Hmm, so we couldn't we use for linux just something like
> > 
> > int
> > platform_check_ismounted(char *name, char *block, struct stat64 *s, int verbose)
> > {
> > 	int fd = open(block, O_EXCL);
> > 	int e = errno;
> > 	
> > 	if (fd != -1) close(fd);
> > 	if (e == EBUSY) {
> > 		if (verbose)
> > 			fprintf(stderr, _("%s: %s contains a mounted filesystem\n"), progname, name);
> > 		return 1;
> > 	}
> > 
> > 	return 0;
> 
> Please give me a couple of days to come up with an idea to use O_EXCL
> on Linux and work around it on other platforms in a more integrated way.

No problem. Thank you!

Felix