lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2009]   [Jun]   [23]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:52:17 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>
> > Right, but that makes it useless for things which want to open it
> > despite having no permission on the file.
>
> For my purposes, if I'm going to emulate pioctl() in userspace, I also need to
> be able to open device files that don't have drivers available, and when you
> do open a dev file in this manner, it must _not_ call the ->open() routine of
> the device driver

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 ?


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2009-06-23 18:09    [W:0.134 / U:0.780 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site