Hi, On Thu, 22 May 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > As I said to allow lookup on files. > > That requires a quite bit more support from the VFS than just allowing > lookup to work on regular files without x bits. You'll have big > trouble with hard links for example: the VFS doesn't like non-leaf > dentries to be aliased. > > Besides hfsplus_permission() did not differentiate between execve on > the file and lookup on that file, allowing both. Which is obviously > wrong. I'm not saying it's perfect. I wished there was a MAY_LOOKUP to clearly differentiate both cases. For now I'd rather keep it as it is and I'll look into it when I find the time. bye, Roman -- 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
