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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)
To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood)
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:42:38 +0100 (BST)
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> For 2.5.x I assume your planning or a credentials cache?  Something
> like dentry->d_creds or something?  If that's the case we still don't
> need the struct file* to be passed --- but I suspect that's not the
> case and I really don't understand.

It can't come off the dentry as multiple people can have the same file open
with different rights.