[linux-cifs-client] Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 00/25] move handling of
setuid/gid bits from VFS into individual setattr functions (RESEND)
Jan Engelhardt
jengelh at computergmbh.de
Wed Aug 8 20:05:18 GMT 2007
On Aug 8 2007 09:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:54:03 -0400
>> > Jeff Layton <jlayton at 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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