Re: [PATCH] A generic_file_sendpage()

[Trond Myklebust]

På fr , 25/06/2004 klokka 16:03, skreiv Jörn Engel:
> Not sure.  NFSv3 appears to be fixable, the only context is the UID,

Huh???? WTF happened to the actual credential?

> which happens to be stored in the inode as well.  NFSv4 and cifs could
> be worse, I didn't look closely yet.  smbfs accesses the dentry, which
> has similar effects, but should be fixable as well.
> 
> Do you know of any impossible cases?

NFS, CIFS, all other networked filesystems that need private context
information beyond what is contained in the struct file. Why?

Trond
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