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Re: patches to move sys_getfh to vfs_syscalls.c?



> b) introduces the new system calls fhopen, fhstat, fhstatfs that are
> like open but with a file handle instead of a file name.

What permission checking happens on these?  Isn't this inherently
a localhost security hole, if you were to walk the filehandle space?

I'm not getting a good description of WHY this needs to happen.