On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 09:37:25AM -0700, Jaegeuk Kim wrote: > I agree that I must follow FS convention here. > But, in order to make this clear out, could you please elaborate why this is not > allowed? > > I wrote this patch totally based on per-file encryption in which users cannot > access their files if they have no right key. > The only difference is that this controls user access with a key only, neither > encrypting file data nor dentries. > > This was initiated by UX in android letting nobody be able to access the files > that owner wants to protect by passcode or fingerprint. > > Does it make no sense to support this by filesystems? I don't think it does. But if you want to argue for it you should a) support it in the VFS b) document the exact semantics c) ensure linux-man and linux-api are on the Cc list. -- 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
