On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:42:54PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > The patch update may_open to allow handle based open on symlinks. > The file handle based API use file descritor returned from open_by_handle_at > to do different file system operations. To find the link target name we > need to get a file descriptor on symlinks. This is a pretty big change, isn't it? Have you looked through vfs to ensure this is actually OK? I was just looking at remount,ro code, for example, and it seems to assume only writable open files on ISREG files. Is this restricted to RDONLY? Really, it should be O_NONE... -- 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
