> Maybe alan was worried about the O_NODE | O_RDWR, etc. case? That > simply doesn't make any sense for special files. I am concerned primarily about the lack of ability to get rid of such a handle in a controlled fashion. The udev/device unload case is simply one obvious way to exploit it. I still don't believe O_NODE makes sense without revoke(), and even then needs huge amounts of care on the device side of things. -- 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