Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266914AbUFZBbN (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:31:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266915AbUFZBbN (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:31:13 -0400 Received: from dh132.citi.umich.edu ([141.211.133.132]:53661 "EHLO lade.trondhjem.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266914AbUFZBbM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:31:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] A generic_file_sendpage() From: Trond Myklebust To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Alexander Viro , Alexander Nyberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek In-Reply-To: <20040625200342.GE8656@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20040608154438.GK18083@dualathlon.random> <20040608193621.GA12780@holomorphy.com> <1086783559.1194.24.camel@boxen> <20040625191924.GA8656@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20040625194611.GQ12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040625200342.GE8656@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <1088211213.9740.16.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:53:34 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 797 Lines: 20 P? fr , 25/06/2004 klokka 16:03, skreiv J?rn Engel: > Not sure. NFSv3 appears to be fixable, the only context is the UID, Huh???? WTF happened to the actual credential? > which happens to be stored in the inode as well. NFSv4 and cifs could > be worse, I didn't look closely yet. smbfs accesses the dentry, which > has similar effects, but should be fixable as well. > > Do you know of any impossible cases? NFS, CIFS, all other networked filesystems that need private context information beyond what is contained in the struct file. Why? Trond - 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/