Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Jun 23 2009 - 12:14:00 EST


Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So how are you going to make that work in conjunction with the in
> progress work on doing stuff like revoke(), and with module reference
> counting ?

Reference count on which module? This would not take a reference on the device
driver as it would not refer to it, but would still have a file struct, an
inode struct and a dentry struct on the underlying fs.

David
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