From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH -V6 08/26] vfs: Add new file and directory create permission flags Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:02:58 +0100 Message-ID: <22786.1315562578@redhat.com> References: <1315243548-18664-9-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1315243548-18664-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, agruen@kernel.org, bfields@fieldses.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1315243548-18664-9-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > -static inline int may_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child) > +static inline int may_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *child, int isdir) Would it make sense to pass the proposed mode_t instead? That way you can check for symlinks and other file types too if necessary later. David