On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, jjohansen@xxxxxxx wrote: > Struct iattr already contains ia_file since commit cc4e69de from > Miklos (which is related to commit befc649c). Use this to pass > struct file down the setattr hooks. This allows LSMs to distinguish > operations on file descriptors from operations on paths. I'm not quite sure I understand this. Why would you distinguish operations based on whether you have a pathname or an inode for an object ? Are you trying to cater for the case where you're holding an open fd for a file which has been deleted, and thus has no pathname? - James -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> - 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