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

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:53:41 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:41:40PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> file->f_cred. Different people opening the same file can have
> different credentials (e.g. credentials can be revoked)
>
> Sure, but if I
>
> f = open("/home/viro/file", ... );
> fsync(f);
>
> I only have creds for 'file' --- I have no such thing for 'viro' or
> 'home', so I can't do anything sensible here.

Credentials are about "I'm foo", not "I'm allowed to do this with that".
Server decides what you can do.

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