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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FMODE_EXEC or alike?
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:17:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140646653.7879.25.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060222220435.GJ28219@fieldses.org>

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:04 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> What I don't understand is the source of the requirement that
> FMODE_WRITE|FMODE_EXEC opens be disallowed.
> 
> The only users of FMODE_EXEC introduced by Oleg's patch use a hardcoded
> FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC, so it doesn't seem to impose any constraints on
> the meaning of FMODE_WRITE|FMODE_EXEC.

I understand FMODE_EXEC to mean that we want to call
deny_write_access(). OTOH, FMODE_WRITE is supposed to trigger an
automatic call to get_write_access().

Those two calls are mutually exclusive.

Cheers,
  Trond


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-22 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-20 22:19 FMODE_EXEC or alike? Oleg Drokin
2006-02-21  5:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-21 11:30   ` Oleg Drokin
2006-02-21 11:36     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-21 11:56       ` Oleg Drokin
2006-02-21 13:59   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-21 14:15     ` Antonio Vargas
2006-02-21 14:21       ` Oleg Drokin
2006-02-22  9:57         ` Antonio Vargas
2006-02-21 14:42       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-21 23:26     ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-21 23:32       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-22 19:57         ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-22 21:36           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-22 22:04             ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-22 22:17               ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-02-22 23:31                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-21 10:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-22  1:03   ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-02-22  8:59     ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-02-22 21:42       ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-02-22 22:02         ` Christoph Hellwig

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