Re: /proc/pid/fd/ shows strange mode when executed via sudo.

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think this is bogus.  We don't give a fuck about *any* of those fields
> for symlinks; the only problem here is that default ->getattr() uses
> them to fill ->st_mode et.al.  The same goes for ->i_uid/->i_gid.
> So how about simply adding ->getattr() for those guys?  And to hell
> with assignments in that ->d_revalidate() instance...

Doing it at getattr() time does sound good.

Let me try to cook something up.

               Linus
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