Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:42:38AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

    It can't come off the dentry as multiple people can have the same
    file open with different rights.

Yes, of course.

If that's the case, I'm not sure how you pick reasonable creds. for
fsyncing path components for a network filesystem, unless you (as the
calling user) open each component and sync that bit by bit --- which
could almost be done in libc (kernel is easier though).

  --cw