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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:15:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: named pipe writes on readonly filesystems
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Since fs/pipe.c:pipe_write() calls mark_inode_dirty, and it is legal to
> write to a named pipe on a readonly filesystem, we can end up writing an
> inode on a readonly FS.

I would check that in pipe_write()...
						Cheers,
							Al

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