Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()

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From: Christoph Hellwig

Subject: Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()

Date: Friday, May 23, 2008 - 2:21 am

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:37:21PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
quoted text> That requires a quite bit more support from the VFS than just allowing
> lookup to work on regular files without x bits.  You'll have big
> trouble with hard links for example: the VFS doesn't like non-leaf
> dentries to be aliased.
> 
> Besides hfsplus_permission() did not differentiate between execve on
> the file and lookup on that file, allowing both.  Which is obviously
> wrong.

Yes.  Roman, if you care about details about the files as directories
look in the reiser4 threads as it did something quite similar.

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[patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Wed May 21, 10:15 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Wed May 21, 1:35 pm)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Thu May 22, 12:58 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Thu May 22, 5:02 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Thu May 22, 5:17 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Thu May 22, 5:28 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Thu May 22, 5:37 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Christoph Hellwig, (Fri May 23, 2:21 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Fri May 23, 8:11 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Fri May 23, 8:18 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 23, 8:31 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 23, 8:49 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Fri May 23, 9:30 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 23, 11:02 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Fri May 23, 11:33 am)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 23, 12:05 pm)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Roman Zippel, (Fri May 23, 2:52 pm)

Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission(), Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 23, 11:59 pm)


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