On Tue, 07 Sep 2010, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:36:03 +0200, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > > Are you ok with rest of syscalls other than the handle based xattr one ? No, not really. Only xattrs stand out from the rest as the "API that shouldn't be" and adding more to that pile makes me feel especially bad. But xattrs aside, I still don't think we need another interface for file handles that duplicates the existing filesystem APIs. 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
