> There's another way to deal with this in NFS and fuse, without having > to change the API: > > - remove suid/sgid bits from i_mode, when refreshing the inode attributes > - store the removed bits (or the original mode) in the fs' inode strucure > - in ->getattr() restore the original mode into the returned stat > > This way the VFS believes, that the inode does not in fact have the > suid/sgid bits and so won't call ->setattr() unnecessarily. Of course this would break exec(). Oh, well. Miklos - 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
