Re: [PATCH] A generic_file_sendpage()

Trond Myklebust
2004-06-26T01:31:13Z

På fr , 25/06/2004 klokka 16:03, skreiv Jörn Engel:
> Not sure. NFSv3 appears to be fixable, the only context is the UID,

Huh???? WTF happened to the actual credential?

> which happens to be stored in the inode as well. NFSv4 and cifs could
> be worse, I didn't look closely yet. smbfs accesses the dentry, which
> has similar effects, but should be fixable as well.
>
> Do you know of any impossible cases?

NFS, CIFS, all other networked filesystems that need private context
information beyond what is contained in the struct file. Why?

Trond