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Message-ID: <20080523092114.GD27119@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 05:21:14 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc: zippel@...ux-m68k.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
hch@...radead.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission()
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:37:21PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> 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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