Re: named pipe writes on readonly filesystems

Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:22:24 +0100

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:15:33PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Since fs/pipe.c:pipe_write() calls mark_inode_dirty, and it is legal to
> > write to a named pipe on a readonly filesystem, we can end up writing an
> > inode on a readonly FS.
>
> I would check that in pipe_write()...

So atime and mtime of a named pipe are meaningless in general?
That would make sense, since you cannot access the data anymore,
once they are through the pipe.

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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