From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:33:30 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805232027220.18302@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Jzbai-0002d1-VC@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Hi,
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> a) it's nontrivial to fix (even understanding the problem is
> nontrivial, see Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking)
Please provide a concrete example, as long as I only get handwaving I can
only wave back.
> b) the feature is obviously unused, so the easiest fix is simply to
> remove it for the time being.
You have a weird definition of "obviously unused", not every user may even
have noticed it's gone, e.g. there are some rsync versions, which support
this and these won't complain if they can't open the resource fork.
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-23 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 17:14 [patch 00/14] vfs: permission API cleanup Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:14 ` [patch 01/14] vfs: add path_getxattr() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 02/14] vfs: add path_listxattr() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 03/14] hppfs: remove hppfs_permission Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 04/14] gfs2: dont call permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:12 ` Steven Whitehouse
2008-05-23 9:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 9:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 9:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 10:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-25 19:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 10:18 ` Steven Whitehouse
2008-05-23 11:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-25 19:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 05/14] hpfs: " Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 20:35 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-22 7:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-22 12:02 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-22 12:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-22 12:28 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-22 12:37 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 15:18 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-23 15:31 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 15:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 16:30 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-23 18:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 18:33 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2008-05-23 19:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 21:52 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-24 6:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 15:11 ` Roman Zippel
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 07/14] vfs: pass dentry to permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 20:29 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22 7:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-22 7:12 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 08/14] vfs: cleanup i_op->permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 09/14] security: dont pass nameidata to security_inode_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 22:52 ` James Morris
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 10/14] vfs: pass flags to dentry_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 11/14] vfs: move executable checking into ->permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 18:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-21 19:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 19:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-21 19:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-23 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-23 9:52 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 12/14] vfs: create path_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 13/14] vfs: dont use dentry_permission() Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-21 17:15 ` [patch 14/14] vfs: path_permission() clean up flags Miklos Szeredi
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