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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:27:51 +0300
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On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 17:30 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Actually that isn't true either - it takes care of *regular file*
> writes. Devices will need a revoke hook and thats really probably only
> right. If they don't have one just -EOPNOTSUPP, you can check it before
> you begin any other processing so its easy to check.

I have uploaded patch with ->revoke here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/penberg/patches/2.6.18-rc2/revoke-system-call-V3.patch

I'll post a new one to LKML after I am done other stuff probably next
week.

			Pekka