Re: Fix broken ownership of /proc/sys/ files

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Al Viro wrote:
>
> D'oh...

So I applied this, but I wonder if it might not be nice to make 
new_inode() (or rather - 'alloc_inode()') initialize some more of the 
really core members.

We already initialize a _lot_ of fields, including fields that most 
filesystem would likely end up re-initializing when reading an inode (like 
i_size and i_nlink). Maybe it would be more sensible to initialize 
i_gid/uid there too, when we are guaranteed to have that cacheline dirty 
anyway (because we're initializing everything around those fields).

But I guess it's not a huge deal. 

		Linus
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