Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:18:03 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, ttb@tentacle.dhs.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:10:01PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:08 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > And using either of them was/is totally bogus.  It's a helper for filesystems,
> > not a general API.
> 
> Is there some specific reason you have a problem with its use?  It works
> quite nicely for what we need.

No it doesn't.  Please try to understand the APIs before you're using them.
Just looking at the callers should give you an immediate clue.
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