Re: [RFC] The reflink(2) system call v4.

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On Mon, 11 May 2009, Joel Becker wrote:

> and other security attributes (in all, I'm gonna call that the "security
> context") as well.  So I defined reflink() as such.  This meant

"security context" is an term associated with SELinux, so you may want to 
use something like "security attributes" or "security state" to avoid 
confusing people.

> +	error = security_inode_reflink(old_dentry, dir);
> +	if (error)
> +		return error;

We'll need the new_dentry now, to set up new security state before the 
dentry is instantiated.

e.g. SELinux will need to perform some checks on the operation, then 
calculate a new security context for the new file.


- James
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