On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 06:46:23PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
> It's to prevent RENAME of silly-renamed files. Doing so in VFS is a
> one-liner, and I agree that the VFS should be as clean as possible,
> but let's face it, the VFS *must* have specific fs knowledge. eg,
I hate to keep following up myself, but I forgot one point I had in
mind: other code in may_delete() is already fs-specific.
IS_APPEND
IS_IMMUTABLE
check_sticky
These things aren't generic, they require specific support from the fs.
/fc
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