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Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:52:20 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>> > I'm not sure of the correct way to get the required nameidata (to do a
>> > vfs_permission() call) from the file descriptor.  Can you give me a
>> > tip there?
>>
>> Could you point me at the right way of doing this?
>
> You don't need nameidata for this at all.  Just call permission() with
> a NULL nameidata.

Thanks Miklos!