Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2008 05:21:14 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 06/14] hfsplus: remove hfsplus_permission() |
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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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