Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3] | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:13:00 +0200 |
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> > I'm not sure of the correct way to get the required nameidata (to do a > > vfs_permission() call) from the file descriptor. Can you give me a > > tip there? > > Could you point me at the right way of doing this?
You don't need nameidata for this at all. Just call permission() with a NULL nameidata.
Ugly API? Yes, will be cleaned up if we manage to find some common ground with the VFS maintainers.
Miklos
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