On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:41:40PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
file->f_cred. Different people opening the same file can have
different credentials (e.g. credentials can be revoked)
Sure, but if I
f = open("/home/viro/file", ... );
fsync(f);
I only have creds for 'file' --- I have no such thing for 'viro' or
'home', so I can't do anything sensible here.
--cw
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