Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:41:40PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

    file->f_cred. Different people opening the same file can have
    different credentials (e.g. credentials can be revoked)

Sure, but if I

        f = open("/home/viro/file", ... );
        fsync(f);

I only have creds for 'file' --- I have no such thing for 'viro' or
'home', so I can't do anything sensible here.

  --cw