From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de
Subject: Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 22:35:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040704213527.GV12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040703143558.5f2c06d6.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:35:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Because it turns the question what permissions a procfs file has into
> > a lottery game. He only changes the incore inode owner and as soon as
> > the inode is reclaimed the old ones return.
>
> procfs inodes aren't reclaimable.
WTF do you mean "not reclaimable"? They do get freed under memory pressure
and recreated on later lookups.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-04 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-03 20:22 procfs permissions on 2.6.x Herbert Poetzl
2004-07-03 20:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-03 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-03 21:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-03 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-04 21:35 ` viro [this message]
2004-07-04 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-04 22:13 ` viro
2004-07-04 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 3:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-07-05 1:50 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-05 1:55 ` viro
2004-07-05 8:05 ` Duncan Sands
2004-07-05 8:14 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-04 1:27 ` bert hubert
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2004-07-04 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-04 22:37 ` FabF
2004-07-04 23:30 ` Paul Jackson
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