From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:20:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110723182029.GJ24703@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwsLHNJYYV=G5QFFYXHGrvutVw1oSWw_wK=HDX6jYm06A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:31:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It would be nice if we
>
> (a) got rid of umode_t entirely
>
> (b) changed 'mode_t' to the 16-bit traditional unix mode
>
> (c) made the users who now use 'mode_t' use the actual size they
> want, since if they actually depend on the higher bits, it shouldn't
> be called mode_t.
>
> but we'll never do it, because it's such a pain.
Maybe, maybe not... There's not *that* many of users of either of those.
BTW, what was fchmod(fd, -1) about? It ends up using current ->i_mode,
but that's not only a Linuxism, it's an undocumented one... Old one,
too - 0.99.14v, AFAICS. Looking around on google gave no results (including
usenet search) and there's no changelog for that revision on kernel.org,
AFAICS...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-23 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-22 17:37 VFS pathname walking cleanups (i_op and ACL access) Linus Torvalds
2011-07-22 17:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] VFS: Cut down inode->i_op->xyz accesses in path walking Linus Torvalds
2011-07-22 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-22 23:40 ` Al Viro
2011-07-22 23:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 3:55 ` [PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 13:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 14:46 ` Al Viro
2011-07-23 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 15:45 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.02.1107251852220.13796@i5.linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 3:05 ` Al Viro
2011-07-26 3:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-26 18:41 ` Al Viro
2011-07-26 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-07 6:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-07 6:51 ` Al Viro
2011-08-07 23:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-22 17:40 ` VFS pathname walking cleanups (i_op and ACL access) Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-22 17:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] vfs: move ACL cache lookup into generic code Linus Torvalds
2011-07-22 17:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-22 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 2:34 ` [PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 3:29 ` Al Viro
2011-07-23 3:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 4:31 ` Al Viro
2011-07-23 6:06 ` Al Viro
2011-07-25 8:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-07-25 8:16 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-07-23 7:47 ` Al Viro
2011-07-23 14:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-23 15:32 ` Al Viro
2011-07-23 17:02 ` Al Viro
2011-07-23 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 18:20 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-07-23 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-23 21:53 ` Al Viro
2011-07-23 22:38 ` Al Viro
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