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Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: vfs_permission was replaced
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
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On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:18 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> No it doesn't.  Please try to understand the APIs before you're using them.
> Just looking at the callers should give you an immediate clue.

Maybe you should look at the code in question.  We actually want to
perform the exact same sort of permission checks that, say, read
performs.

	Robert Love