Re: [PATCH] revoke: delayed file closing

[Pekka Enberg]

On 3/9/07, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To fix this, change sys_revoke() not to close the actual revoked file
> immediately. Instead, we do filp_close() when the user does close(2)
> on the revoked file descriptor.

Btw, this is safe because a filesystem implementing f_ops->revoke must
ensure there are no pending writes after it has completed so
f_ops->flush will not do any actual flushing when it is invoked by a
delayed close.
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