On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, [email protected] wrote:
> Struct iattr already contains ia_file since commit cc4e69de from
> Miklos (which is related to commit befc649c). Use this to pass
> struct file down the setattr hooks. This allows LSMs to distinguish
> operations on file descriptors from operations on paths.
I'm not quite sure I understand this.
Why would you distinguish operations based on whether you have a pathname
or an inode for an object ?
Are you trying to cater for the case where you're holding an open fd for a
file which has been deleted, and thus has no pathname?
- James
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