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

[Hans Reiser]

Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 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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Can you define f_cred for us?

Hans