From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchange patch)
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 11:45:47 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B6BA82B.E02553D4@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108031947080.5264-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:41:40PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > file->f_cred. Different people opening the same file can have
> > different credentials (e.g. credentials can be revoked)
> >
> > Sure, but if I
> >
> > f = open("/home/viro/file", ... );
> > fsync(f);
> >
> > I only have creds for 'file' --- I have no such thing for 'viro' or
> > 'home', so I can't do anything sensible here.
>
> Credentials are about "I'm foo", not "I'm allowed to do this with that".
> Server decides what you can do.
>
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Can you define f_cred for us?
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-04 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <0108030507330F.00440@starship>
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108022312211.1494-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
2001-08-03 13:09 ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 14:43 ` Horst von Brand
2001-08-03 17:49 ` Mike Castle
2001-08-04 3:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 18:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 18:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 18:53 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 20:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04 3:43 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-03 22:01 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch) Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 22:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04 3:53 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 5:48 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 22:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:09 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:20 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:25 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:35 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:41 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-03 23:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 23:53 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04 7:45 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2001-08-04 18:31 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchange patch) Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 1:47 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-08 17:22 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchangepatch) Hans Reiser
2001-08-03 23:42 ` [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch) Alan Cox
2001-08-03 23:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04 1:08 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04 1:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-04 1:45 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04 4:04 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 18:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 12:15 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-05 12:32 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-05 13:02 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-08-04 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-04 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2001-08-05 7:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-09 13:25 ` Matthias Andree
2001-08-04 17:35 ` Jan Harkes
2001-08-04 18:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 15:02 ` Chris Mason
2001-08-06 20:48 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-03 22:29 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-03 23:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-08-06 15:23 ` looking for resources for designing loopback filesystem dave-mlist
2001-08-06 16:11 ` Ville Herva
2001-08-03 18:36 ` intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread Matthias Andree
2001-08-03 19:16 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-04 3:40 ` fdatasync(2) is also there (was: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread) Matthias Andree
2001-08-05 0:28 ` Mike Castle
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