On 7/20/06, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > This patch implements the revoke(2) and frevoke(2) system calls for all > types of files. We revoke files in two passes: first we scan all open > files that refer to the inode and substitute the struct file pointer in fd > table with NULL causing all subsequent operations on that fd to fail. > After we have done that to all file descriptors, we close the files and > take down mmaps. RFC2: Make umount -f work on local fs using this feature.
RFC3: use preliminary work about umount -f in order to get revoke for free. See for instance http://developer.osdl.org/dev/fumount/kernel2/patches/2.6.12/1/forced-unmount-2.6.12-1.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
