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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 21:05:52 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2
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Hi!

> > Sure. Though I wonder if sys_frevoke is enough for us and we can drop 
> > sys_revoke completely.
> 
> Alas not. Some Unix devices have side effects when you open() them. 

We probably want some other solution for those, anyway...? Like
open(..., O_NONE)?
							Pavel
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