Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2

[Pekka J Enberg]

At some point in time, I wrote:
> > This patch implements the revoke(2) and frevoke(2) system calls for
> > all types of files. The operation is done in passes: first we replace

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Do we need revoke()? open()+frevoke() should be fast enough, no?

Not a speed issue, open can have side effects which we might want to 
avoid. See comments from Alan and Ulrich in this thread.

				Pekka
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