Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262384AbUKQUOj (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:14:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262381AbUKQUNB (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:13:01 -0500 Received: from brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.34]:37055 "EHLO brmea-mail-3.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262517AbUKQUJa (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:09:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:09:05 -0500 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced In-reply-to: <1100719052.4981.4.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> To: Robert Love Cc: Christoph Hellwig , ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <419BAFE1.7030500@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040926) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <1100710677.6280.2.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <1100714560.6280.7.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20041117190850.GA11682@infradead.org> <1100718601.4981.2.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <20041117191803.GA11830@infradead.org> <1100719052.4981.4.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1565 Lines: 49 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Love wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:18 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>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. > > > Maybe you should look at the code in question. We actually want to > perform the exact same sort of permission checks that, say, read > performs. > > Robert Love > > > - > 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/ use permission() - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBm6/hdQs4kOxk3/MRAjFPAJ9tmyglXGvlhP4aYFzbX4uAmXIZkwCgjs86 mUksZfBEDIdncxVMmutvVGA= =ei8c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/