From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CacheFiles: Add calls to path-based security hooks [ver #2]
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:03:54 +0000
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James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:

> > Add calls to path-based security hooks into CacheFiles as, unlike
> > inode-based security, these aren't implicit in the vfs_mkdir() and similar
> > calls.
> 
> Adding fsdevel for further review - cachefiles is essentially part of the 
> vfs, right ?

It certainly makes good use of the VFS interfaces, so I suppose in that sense,
yes.

David