On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 11:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Anyway, the whole "you can do it at file granularity" isn't the bulk > of my argument (the "we already have the field that makes sense" is). > But my point is that per-inode is not only the logically more > straightforward place to do it, it's also the much more flexible place > to do it. Because it *allows* for things like that. Ok. To summarize, S_IMA indicates that there is a rule and that the iint was allocated. To differentiate between 'haven't looked/don't know' and 'definitely not', we need another bit. For this, you're suggesting using IS_PRIVATE()? Hopefully, I misunderstood. thanks, Mimi -- 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
