Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] vfs: support for a common kernel file loader (step 1)

2016-01-08 Thread Mimi Zohar
On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 14:21 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > For a while it was looked down upon to directly read files from Linux. > These days there exists a few mechanisms in the kernel that do just this > though to load a file into a local buffer. There are minor but important > checks differences on

[RFC PATCH 0/5] vfs: support for a common kernel file loader (step 1)

2016-01-08 Thread Mimi Zohar
For a while it was looked down upon to directly read files from Linux. These days there exists a few mechanisms in the kernel that do just this though to load a file into a local buffer. There are minor but important checks differences on each, we should take all the best practices from each of the