Re: Proposal: int (permission*)(struct dentry *, int)

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 19:34:35 EDT

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    On Mon, 15 May 2000, G. Allen Morris III wrote:

    > The only filesystem in the linux kernel that has an issue with this
    > is the MSDOS filesystem, but this is only because of the way it
    > is handling inter-directory renames. But there is a way to handle
    > this so that the inode->ino does not change on a reboot.

    Yeah, right... Make it
            msdos/vfat, hfs, most likely hpfs/ntfs, smbfs, ncpfs, nfs -
    everything except the normal UNIX filesystems (I omitted stuff like procfs
    - these are not exportable too).

    BTW, which way would that be?

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