Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264559AbTFYPZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:25:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264569AbTFYPZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:25:45 -0400 Received: from grendel.firewall.com ([66.28.56.41]:35736 "EHLO grendel.firewall.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264559AbTFYPZo (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:25:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:39:43 +0200 From: Marek Habersack To: Christoph Hellwig , Steve Lord , Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas Message-ID: <20030625153943.GJ1745@thanes.org> Reply-To: grendel@debian.org 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> <20030625161627.A20049@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030625161627.A20049@infradead.org> Organization: I just... X-GPG-Fingerprint: 0F0B 21EE 7145 AA2A 3BF6 6D29 AB7F 74F4 621F E6EA X-message-flag: Outlook - A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1449 Lines: 44 --2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:16:27PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig scribbled: [snip] > > at Irix and confirm this. Imposing different semantics on the rest of > > the filesystems did not seem like the right thing to do. >=20 > Actually there's a posix option group for finding out exactly that, > (see http://people.redhat.com/drepper/posix-option-groups.html#CHOWN_REST= RICTED) > but yeah it might be more of a legacy thing. >=20 > 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: >=20 > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/chown.html This being clear, maybe it should be a compile-time option in XFS? Or would that be unacceptable? marek --2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++cI/q3909GIf5uoRAgzVAJ98btK2JPKyHIIn8GqfHvXTCUZYOACfdHEV NMeGov/h5IOA05fJbMl9iMQ= =S36X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2xzXx3ruJf7hsAzo-- - 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/