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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:53:27 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revokeat/frevoke system calls V5
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> On 2/26/07, Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Whats the status on this, I was suprised to see something so important
>> just go dead ?
> 
> It's not dead. You can find the latest patches here:
> 
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/revoke/patches/
> 
> and user-space tests here:
> 
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/revoke/utils/
> 
> What they are lacking is review so I am not sure how to proceed with
> the patches.
> 

On this general subject, would it make sense to, for the future, have 
system calls of the -at() form only, and specify that the f- system 
calls take (fd, NULL) as the (file descriptor, filename) tuple?

	-hpa
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