Re: TODO list

From: Greg KH (gregat_private)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 13:16:21 PDT

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    On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:02:33PM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:
    > 
    > I consider the "path name vs. inode" question to be unresolved.  Chris is
    > looking into the various proposals to see how well they work, and what
    > kind of performance penalty they impose.  He is hitting problems, which
    > may or may not be solvable.  Pending results, the name based hooks may
    > need to come back.
    
    What is the issue?  Do you feel that the call to
    file_ops->alloc_security(f) comes to late to determine which path this
    file came from?  Or is matching up files to inodes to difficult?
    
    greg k-h
    
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