From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:55:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:54:50 -0500 Received: from islay.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de ([129.13.162.92]:48139 "EHLO mailout.plan9.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:54:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:54:25 +0100 From: Marc Lehmann To: Alexander Viro Cc: Stefan Traby , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state) Message-ID: <20010108195425.A2472@cerebro.laendle> Mail-Followup-To: Alexander Viro , Stefan Traby , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010108192455.A1891@stefan.sime.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:33:50PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux version 2.2.18 (root@cerebro) (gcc version pgcc-2.95.2.1 20001224 (release)) X-Copyright: copyright 2000 Marc Alexander Lehmann - all rights reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > And prefix would be what? "/"? Besides, I said that you don't have > read permissions on /foo, not search ones. You do not need read permissions on /foo to make pathconf on it. This makes sense: you are not reading the directory... -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@opengroup.org |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/