Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm not sure what this function is trying to achieve, but it's not
> succeeding: the condition for which it is returning zero is exactly
> the same as checked by permission(), which results in -EACCES.
> 
> So in the end this is equivalent to the default action.

No, it's not, it allows for HFS+ specific special case to allow the lookup 
of the resource fork.

bye, Roman
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