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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...>
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Cc: <miklos@...>, <drepper@...>, <viro@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-man@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 7:13 am

> > I'm not sure of the correct way to get the required nameidata (to do a

You don't need nameidata for this at all.  Just call permission() with
a NULL nameidata.

Ugly API?  Yes, will be cleaned up if we manage to find some common
ground with the VFS maintainers.

Miklos
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[PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- version 2, Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 16, 4:31 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 16, 12:59 pm)
[PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 30, 11:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Tue Jun 3, 7:13 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 7:22 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Tue Jun 3, 8:16 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 9:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:27 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Jamie Lokier, (Tue Jun 3, 7:30 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Tue Jun 3, 7:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 7:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Jamie Lokier, (Tue Jun 3, 8:01 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 8:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Jamie Lokier, (Tue Jun 3, 8:10 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Al Viro, (Tue Jun 3, 7:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 12:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 30, 2:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Andrew Morton, (Fri May 30, 4:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Sat May 31, 1:44 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 30, 3:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 4:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Michael Kerrisk, (Sat May 31, 1:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 3:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Matthew Wilcox, (Fri May 30, 3:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3], Miklos Szeredi, (Fri May 30, 4:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Michael Kerrisk, (Sat May 17, 3:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Miklos Szeredi, (Mon May 19, 5:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Michael Kerrisk, (Mon May 19, 8:24 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Miklos Szeredi, (Mon May 19, 9:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Miklos Szeredi, (Mon May 19, 6:12 am)
Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes -- versio..., Michael Kerrisk, (Fri May 16, 4:34 am)