Catch up with the nice little toys the kernel fs developers have added
for us. Preferably, let's make use of the new F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl() call
that checks whether two fds are just duplicates of each other
(duplicates as in dup(), not as in open() of the same inode, i.e.
whether they share a single file offset and so on).
This API is much nicer, since it is a core kernel feature, unlike the
kcmp() call we so far used, which is part of the (optional)
checkpoint/restore stuff.
F_DUPFD_QUERY is available since kernel 6.10.
Newer kernels support a new flag for name_to_handle_at(): AT_HANDLE_FID.
This flag is supposed to return an identifier for an inode that we can
use for checking inode identity. It's supposed to be a replacement for
checking .st_ino which doesn't work anymore today because inode numbers
are no longer unique on file systems (not on overlayfs, and not on btrfs
for example). Hence, be a good citizen and add infrastructure to support
AT_HANDLE_FID. Unfortunately that doesn't work for old kernels, hence
add a fallback logic: if we can use the flag, use it. If we cannot use
name_to_handle_at() without it, which might give us a good ID too. But
of course tha tcan fail as well, which callers have to check.
Yu Watanabe
Lennart Poettering
Adrian Vovk