Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:10 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] O_NOACC: open without any access |
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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 ?
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