Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:47:25 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: [security]: kernel ioctl()'s [3] |
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Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > As for the big change... Nope. I'm testing the patch right now. > It's small. I took 4 bits (0x10000-0x2000) and that should be changed in > the final version, indeed. But that means changing 4 macros. I *had* > a reason to move IMMUTABLE/APPEND_ONLY handling to VFS ;-) And that was > done several months ago. The rest is not large.
Thinking about the importance of avoiding a reboot during system upgrades: I presume that, unless the containing directory is immutable or append_only, that such files can be renamed?
-- Raul
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