Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] pass open file to ->setattr()

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > This is needed to be able to correctly implement open-unlink-fsetattr
> > semantics in some filesystem such as sshfs, without having to resort
> > to "silly-renaming".
> 
> How do you plan to do that?

Easy: the SFTP protocol has stateful opens and defines an FSTAT call.

Miklos
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