Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 11/14] vfs: move executable checking into ->permission() | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 21:34:27 +0200 |
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> > No, we don't want to deny read or write (that's up to the filesystem > > how it handles it), just want to deny execute if no x bits are set in > > the mode. > > OK, but when I see something with the name 'exec_permission()', I assume > that it is going to check for whether or not I have execute permission. > > If that is not the case, then can we please either change the function, > or change the name?
Yeah, the name's not very good. Especially that there's an exec_permission_lite() in the same file, which has nothing to do with this.
Will try to think of something better.
Miklos
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