On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:06:40AM +0300, Alexey Gladkov wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Do you have any good reason for that? > > This is useful when you want to protect the directory from creating > new files. This is useful when you just don't know the contents of the > directory. Well, for that you'd need mandatory locks, which as I said don't actually work as none of the namespace operations calls into the file locking code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html