Re: [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Nov 17 2004 - 21:23:51 EST


On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:17:32PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:18 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > No it doesn't. Please try to understand the APIs before you're using them.
> > Just looking at the callers should give you an immediate clue.
>
> Maybe you should look at the code in question. We actually want to
> perform the exact same sort of permission checks that, say, read
> performs.

Maybe you should look at the code in kernel - e.g. aforementioned sys_read().
Or sys_open().

The only fs-independent code that has any business calling that puppy is
permission(9).
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