From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: Storing permissions Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:32:02 -0700 Organization: SGI Message-ID: <20050416223202.3d7c2a5f.pj@sgi.com> References: <20050416230058.GA10983@ucw.cz> <118833cc05041618017fb32a2@mail.gmail.com> <20050416183023.0b27b3a4.pj@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mwelinder@gmail.com, mj@ucw.cz, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 17 07:28:44 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DN2Kp-0008Be-QG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:28:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261264AbVDQFcZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:32:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261263AbVDQFcZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:32:25 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:7825 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261265AbVDQFcW (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 01:32:22 -0400 Received: from omx3.sgi.com (omx3-ext.sgi.com [192.48.171.20]) by zeus1.kernel.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3H5WLRC027444 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:32:21 -0700 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by omx3.sgi.com (8.12.11/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id j3H5tce0015599; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:55:38 -0700 Received: from vpn2 (mtv-vpn-hw-pj-2.corp.sgi.com [134.15.25.219]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id j3H5W6lU15308364; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:32:07 -0700 (PDT) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus wrote: > It might be ok to just change the "compare cache" check to only care > about a few bits, though: S_IXUSR and S_IFDIR. And then ... I think I agree. But since I am reluctant to take enough time to understand the code well enough to write this patch, I'll shut up now ;). -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401