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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2005-11-08 21:35:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-09 07:55:59 -0800
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[PATCH] add a file_permission helper
A few more callers of permission() just want to check for a different access pattern on an already open file. This patch adds a wrapper for permission() that takes a file in preparation of per-mount read-only support and to clean up the callers a little. The helper is not intended for new code, everything without the interface set in stone should use vfs_permission() Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index c3b8c1dc7cd..cc35b6ac778 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -890,6 +890,11 @@ extern int vfs_rename(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct de
extern void dentry_unhash(struct dentry *dentry);
/*
+ * VFS file helper functions.
+ */
+extern int file_permission(struct file *, int);
+
+/*
* File types
*
* NOTE! These match bits 12..15 of stat.st_mode