linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls

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Message-Id: <E1G3g2H-0001W7-LB@be1.lrz>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:26:01 +0200
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@...tempel.de>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...Helsinki.FI>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls

Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...Helsinki.FI> wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

> This patch implements the revoke(2) and frevoke(2) system calls for all
> types of files. We revoke files in two passes: first we scan all open
> files that refer to the inode and substitute the struct file pointer in fd
> table with NULL causing all subsequent operations on that fd to fail.
> After we have done that to all file descriptors, we close the files and
> take down mmaps.

RFC2: Make umount -f work on local fs using this feature.
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