Re: Socket locking

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 4 Oct 1997 19:58:58 +0100 (BST)

> I think this is a good idea. Really dentry->d_inode is "backing store
> object" so just changing that member of struct dentry to be
> "void *d_object" would suffice.

I think this is a really bad idea. Inode operations apply to a socket.

> But here is the other issue, don't we use the permission stuff in the
> inode for socket processing in certain cases? And furthermore someone

You can validly chown/fchown sockets. Unix domain sockets can have real
inodes. You an also stat sockets etc..

Alan