Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 18:42:38 EST


> For 2.5.x I assume your planning or a credentials cache? Something
> like dentry->d_creds or something? If that's the case we still don't
> need the struct file* to be passed --- but I suspect that's not the
> case and I really don't understand.

It can't come off the dentry as multiple people can have the same file open
with different rights.
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