Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:31:56 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: all files are executable in vfat |
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On 25 Sep 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes: > > > OK, let me put it that way: we need to turn stat() into method > > call rather than blind access to inode fields. Then all these > > problems will be very easy to deal with. > > Yes *please*! Finally we could introduce proper support for 64-bit > inode numbers too!
Right. As soon as userland is audited for places where it uses int for storing inode numbers - just a couple of months after MS fixes all security holes in their software. By then we'll need 128bit time_t, though...
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