Re: [PATCH] vfs: new FROM_ACCESS flag

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:28:46PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> > only using MAY_ACCESS for calles from access() insteaf of introducing
> > a FROM_ACCESS flag and causing lots of naming confusion.
> 
> What would you think of a new, MUST_REVALIDATE_PERMS which will do what
> MAY_ACCESS does today.  MAY_ACCESS would be just for access(2) and would
> be the flag that I use for SELinux?

Yeah, something like this.  I don't like the MUST_REVALIDATE_PERMS name
too much, but unless someone comes up with a better one I can live with
it.

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