linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:36:40 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no,
	adilger@...sterfs.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:24:54PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the feedback.  Here's two of the VFS patches
> reworked according to comments.  I also plan to rework the setattr()
> patch accordingly and perhaps the xattr patch, altough that is the
> lowest priority.
> 
> Christoph, are these OK with you in this form?

Not at all.  Attribute operations like this have no business at all
looking at the struct file.  Please fix your dreaded filesystem to
implement proper unix semantics intead, and if that means adding
silly rename support so be it.

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