On 7/27/06, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > +asmlinkage int sys_revoke(const char __user *filename) On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Could we just plainly avoid adding any new syscalls which take a > filename without extending the interface like the *at functions? > I.e., add a file descriptor parameter, handle AT_FDCWD, etc. The > additional effort is really minimal. Even if, as in this case, the > function is propably not used in situations where the filename use is > racy there are still those people to consider who want to implement a > virtual per-thread current working directory. Sure. Though I wonder if sys_frevoke is enough for us and we can drop sys_revoke completely. Pekka - 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
