Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 00/25] move handling of setuid/gid bits from VFS into individual setattr functions (RESEND)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Aug 8 2007 09:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:54:03 -0400
>> > Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Is there any way in which we can prevent these problems?  Say
>> > 
>> > - rename something so that unconverted filesystems will reliably fail to
>> >   compile?
>> > 
>> 
>> I suppose we could rename the .setattr inode operation to something
>> else, but then we'll be stuck with it for at least a while. That seems
>> sort of kludgey too...
>
>Sure.  We're changing the required behaviour of .setattr.  Changing its
>name is a fine and reasonably reliable way to communicate that fact.

Maybe ->chattr/->chgattr?


	Jan
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