Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike?

[Trond Myklebust]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:04 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> What I don't understand is the source of the requirement that
> FMODE_WRITE|FMODE_EXEC opens be disallowed.
> 
> The only users of FMODE_EXEC introduced by Oleg's patch use a hardcoded
> FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC, so it doesn't seem to impose any constraints on
> the meaning of FMODE_WRITE|FMODE_EXEC.

I understand FMODE_EXEC to mean that we want to call
deny_write_access(). OTOH, FMODE_WRITE is supposed to trigger an
automatic call to get_write_access().

Those two calls are mutually exclusive.

Cheers,
  Trond

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