Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267984AbUI1Qmx (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:42:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267987AbUI1Qmx (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:42:53 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:4516 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267984AbUI1Qmq (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:42:46 -0400 Message-ID: <41599456.6040102@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:41:58 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Ray Lee , rml@novell.com, ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gamin-list@gnome.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, iggy@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 References: <1096250524.18505.2.camel@vertex> <20040926211758.5566d48a.akpm@osdl.org> <1096318369.30503.136.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <1096350328.26742.52.camel@orca.madrabbit.org> <20040928120830.7c5c10be.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040928120830.7c5c10be.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 586 Lines: 15 Andrew Morton wrote: > Why don't you pass a file descriptor into the syscall instead of a pathname? > You can then take a ref on the inode and userspace can close the file. > That gets you permission checking for free. For passing in the data, that would work. Wouldn't you still need a name or path when getting data back though? Chris - 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/