Re: named pipe writes on readonly filesystems

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 21:15:33 EST

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Since fs/pipe.c:pipe_write() calls mark_inode_dirty, and it is legal to
> write to a named pipe on a readonly filesystem, we can end up writing an
> inode on a readonly FS.

I would check that in pipe_write()...
                                                Cheers,
                                                        Al

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