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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: reject O_RDWR open for read-only images
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:53:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBD8B6C.1060207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v2hfbd9d3991004070802y4f937494w714929279b840ba4@mail.gmail.com>

Am 07.04.2010 17:02, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> Various obscure image format drivers do not allow write access.
>> Instead of silently falling back to read-only access reject attempts
>> to open these images for write access.
> 
> Does block/curl.c need this too?

Yes, looks like it. It even fails to declare itself readonly like those
other formats do currently. One more argument for doing it in a central
place where no driver would be missed.

Kevin

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07 11:57 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: reject O_RDWR open for read-only images Christoph Hellwig
2010-04-07 12:32 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-04-23 16:09   ` Kevin Wolf
2010-04-23 16:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-04-07 15:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-08  7:53   ` Kevin Wolf [this message]

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