Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:05:57 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2 |
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On 7/27/06, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > > +asmlinkage int sys_revoke(const char __user *filename)
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Could we just plainly avoid adding any new syscalls which take a > filename without extending the interface like the *at functions? > I.e., add a file descriptor parameter, handle AT_FDCWD, etc. The > additional effort is really minimal. Even if, as in this case, the > function is propably not used in situations where the filename use is > racy there are still those people to consider who want to implement a > virtual per-thread current working directory.
Sure. Though I wonder if sys_frevoke is enough for us and we can drop sys_revoke completely.
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