-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Al Viro wrote: > Like hell. At the very least you want it to be opened for write. > And even that is dubious, since "process has write access to file" > is not quite the same thing as "somebody had given the process a > descriptor opened for write".
But the real permissions tests are performed in notify_change. I think all this is consistent with how, for instance, fchmod works. The additional tests in fchmod which aren't here (IS_RDONLY and IS_APPEND) would also apply to the case where a file name is given. So, either the code was inconsistent already are these tests are really not needed. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGkSHa2ijCOnn/RHQRAp0RAJ9ouvOd52feTPuFurxj8LzHZuGZsACgwxA8 ybEo1xmvakkKVenWc07PYhs= =5DBy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
