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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:19:48 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: procfs_lookup() and jail interaction 
Message-ID:  <11832.967483188@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:06:17 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000828130132.84062L-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000828130132.84062L-100000@fledge.watson.org>, Robe
rt Watson writes:

>It looks like vn_open looks directory at vp->v_type to determine if it's a
>directory, not relying on the results of VOP_GETATTR:
>
>        if ((fmode & O_CREAT) == 0) {
>                mode = 0;
>                if (fmode & (FWRITE | O_TRUNC)) {
>                        if (vp->v_type == VDIR) {
>                                error = EISDIR;
>                                goto bad;
>                        }
>
>So the check is still happening above the VFS layer.
>
>I'll look at the code further this evening.

Hmm, but vn_open needs to find the vnode first, and that means
a VOP_LOOKUP into procfs doesn't it ?  How else (when the vfscache
isn't used) would it know which vnode ?

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