Re: Proposal: int (permission*)(struct dentry *, int)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 18:34:35 EST


On Mon, 15 May 2000, G. Allen Morris III wrote:

> The only filesystem in the linux kernel that has an issue with this
> is the MSDOS filesystem, but this is only because of the way it
> is handling inter-directory renames. But there is a way to handle
> this so that the inode->ino does not change on a reboot.

Yeah, right... Make it
        msdos/vfat, hfs, most likely hpfs/ntfs, smbfs, ncpfs, nfs -
everything except the normal UNIX filesystems (I omitted stuff like procfs
- these are not exportable too).

BTW, which way would that be?

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