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

From: Edgar Toernig
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 04:15:42 EST


Pavel Machek 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
>
>
> Do we need revoke()? open()+frevoke() should be fast enough, no?

Why do we need [f]revoke at all? As it doesn't implement the
BSD semantic I can't see why it's better than fuser -k.

Ciao, ET.
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