Re: [PATCH 2/5] revoke: core code

[Pekka Enberg]

On 3/16/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Serious question - do we actually need revoke() on a normal file ? BSD
> > has never had this, SYS5 has never had this.

On 3/16/07, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's needed for forced unmount (bits of it anyway) and
> partial-revocation in SLIM.

And btw, you do need support for tearing down mmap for device files too, right?
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