Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966070AbbBCSue (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:50:34 -0500 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:44751 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753791AbbBCSua (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:50:30 -0500 Message-ID: <54D11872.2050701@ahsoftware.de> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:50:26 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?THVrw6HFoSBDemVybmVy?= CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] WIP: fs: ext4: support unlinkat_s() for secure deletion of files References: <1422896713-25367-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <1422896713-25367-4-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <54D0E04D.60403@ahsoftware.de> <54D0F977.3080608@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: <54D0F977.3080608@ahsoftware.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 23 BTW., if someone still likes my trivial approach and thinks the patches might be usable because they contain just a few silly changes which might be easily rebased onto future kernel versions, I suggest to get rid of the new syscall and just use something like #define AT_WIPE 0x2000 in include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h for using the old unlinkat() with that new flag. That's much easier to handle than a new syscall which likely never will end up in the kernel and makes my silly patches even more simple. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/