> Generally this sort of recursion through the VFS is ugly and > unnecessary, it's much better to provide helper for what the VFS is > doing if there's a lot of duplication. But in this case there's > really no point in that at all. And that's true of lookup_one_len() as well, the last bit of horror left in this permission() saga. It's called from lots of places, often for doing things it's not at all meant to do (e.g. where caller _knows_ it will return negative, etc...). One day maybe I'll have strength to clean that up as well..., but not now. 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
