On Tue, 07 Sep 2010, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: > Any update on this. Are you ok with syscall approach which is limitted to > CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH ? My gut reaction is: "not another bunch of xattr syscalls!". It doesn't feel right, this interface is too specialized to warrant a full set of filesystem syscalls. Al Viro is right that there are problems with symlinks. What we really want here is a sort of symlink that doesn't get followed. One way to provide that is to create a kernel internal "handle" filesystem and direct open_by_handle() to that for anything not a directory or a regular file. Thanks, 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
