> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:25:19PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> You need credentials to sync a regular file on any network
> filesystem.
>
> For 2.5.x I assume your planning or a credentials cache? Something
> like dentry->d_creds or something? If that's the case we still don't
> need the struct file* to be passed --- but I suspect that's not the
> case and I really don't understand.
file->f_cred. Different people opening the same file can have different
credentials (e.g. credentials can be revoked)
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