Re: all files are executable in vfat

[Alexander Viro]

On 25 Sep 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> >>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
>      > OK, let me put it that way: we need to turn stat() into method
>      > call rather than blind access to inode fields.  Then all these
>      > problems will be very easy to deal with.
> 
> Yes *please*! Finally we could introduce proper support for 64-bit
> inode numbers too!

Right.  As soon as userland is audited for places where it uses int
for storing inode numbers - just a couple of months after MS fixes
all security holes in their software.  By then we'll need 128bit time_t,
though...