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From: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/5] revoke: core code
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:50:48 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707111247180.12522@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070711094251.GV21668@ftp.linux.org.uk>

Hi Al,

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> Better: I have the only opened descriptor for foo.  I send it to myself
> as described above.  I close it.  revoke() is called, finds no opened
> instances of foo in any descriptor tables and cheerfully does nothing.
> I call recvmsg() and I have completely undamaged opened file back.

Uhm, nice. So, revoke() needs a proper inode -> struct files mapping 
somewhere. Can we add a list of files to struct inode? Are there other 
cases where a file can point to an inode but the file is not attached to 
any file descriptor?

				Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-11  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-11  9:01 [RFC/PATCH 2/5] revoke: core code Pekka J Enberg
2007-07-11  9:37 ` Al Viro
2007-07-11  9:42   ` Al Viro
2007-07-11  9:50     ` Pekka J Enberg [this message]
2007-07-11 10:09       ` Al Viro
2007-07-11 10:54         ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-07-11 10:01   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-07-11 10:18     ` Al Viro

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