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From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs_unlink() again, and trivial nfs_fhget
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:56:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030621185623.C29657@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030621184623.A29657@google.com>; from fcusack@fcusack.com on Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:46:23PM -0700

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:46:23PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
> It's to prevent RENAME of silly-renamed files.  Doing so in VFS is a
> one-liner, and I agree that the VFS should be as clean as possible,
> but let's face it, the VFS *must* have specific fs knowledge.  eg,

I hate to keep following up myself, but I forgot one point I had in
mind: other code in may_delete() is already fs-specific.

IS_APPEND
IS_IMMUTABLE
check_sticky

These things aren't generic, they require specific support from the fs.
/fc

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-22  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-17 12:14 [PATCH] nfs_unlink() again, and trivial nfs_fhget Frank Cusack
2003-06-17 18:41 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-17 23:55   ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-18  0:06     ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-18 23:40     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-22  1:46       ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-22  1:56         ` Frank Cusack [this message]
2003-06-22  7:29         ` Trond Myklebust

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