Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934716AbZLGNNp (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:13:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757794AbZLGNNo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:13:44 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:34055 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757495AbZLGNNn (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:13:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:15:46 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, luto@mit.edu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vfs: new O_NODE open flag Message-ID: <20091207131546.2af06647@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20091202191549.1dbffa2e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091202204828.4fa0c108@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4B1A7159.3070101@mit.edu> <20091205202838.3456b6fc@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091205231304.03a4af61@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091207122346.6d18a8e1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20091207130339.620b904b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 12 > Alan, you are just ignoring facts and trying to push revoke(2) which > in fact doesn't have much to do with this issue. revoke(2) is about > *open devices*, O_NODE doesn't produce an open device. Don't you > understand that? That is *exactly* the problem, which is clearly what you are missing here. -- 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/