Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936143AbXHHUFb (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:05:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763420AbXHHUFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:05:18 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:50183 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761981AbXHHUFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:05:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:05:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andrew Morton cc: Jeff Layton , codalist@TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, cluster-devel@redhat.com, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com, joel.becker@oracle.com, dhowells@redhat.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jffs-dev@axis.com, user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 00/25] move handling of setuid/gid bits from VFS into individual setattr functions (RESEND) In-Reply-To: <20070808094853.8c27450c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <200708061354.l76Ds3mU002255@dantu.rdu.redhat.com> <20070807171501.e31c4a97.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070808085435.722f2b10.jlayton@redhat.com> <20070808094853.8c27450c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 908 Lines: 28 On Aug 8 2007 09:48, Andrew Morton wrote: >> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:54:03 -0400 >> > Jeff Layton wrote: >> > >> > Is there any way in which we can prevent these problems? Say >> > >> > - rename something so that unconverted filesystems will reliably fail to >> > compile? >> > >> >> I suppose we could rename the .setattr inode operation to something >> else, but then we'll be stuck with it for at least a while. That seems >> sort of kludgey too... > >Sure. We're changing the required behaviour of .setattr. Changing its >name is a fine and reasonably reliable way to communicate that fact. Maybe ->chattr/->chgattr? Jan -- - 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/