Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264503AbTFYPCU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:02:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264509AbTFYPCU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:02:20 -0400 Received: from phoenix.mvhi.com ([195.224.96.167]:64261 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264503AbTFYPCT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:02:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:16:27 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steve Lord Cc: Arjan van de Ven , grendel@debian.org, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas Message-ID: <20030625161627.A20049@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Steve Lord , Arjan van de Ven , grendel@debian.org, Linux Kernel References: <20030625095126.GD1745@thanes.org> <1056545505.1170.19.camel@laptop.americas.sgi.com> <20030625134129.GG1745@thanes.org> <1056551143.5779.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20030625153545.A16074@infradead.org> <1056553902.1416.61.camel@laptop.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1056553902.1416.61.camel@laptop.americas.sgi.com>; from lord@sgi.com on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:11:40AM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1072 Lines: 21 On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:11:40AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > This is all backwards compatibility with folks expecting Irix behavior, > and I think on Irix it is even a backwards compatibility thing. If we > were not having a major power outage at work right now I could look > at Irix and confirm this. Imposing different semantics on the rest of > the filesystems did not seem like the right thing to do. Actually there's a posix option group for finding out exactly that, (see http://people.redhat.com/drepper/posix-option-groups.html#CHOWN_RESTRICTED) but yeah it might be more of a legacy thing. Adding a common sysctl for this would allow glibc to properly implement patchconf(..., _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED), but it seems SuSv2/3 sais it must be always defined: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/chown.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/