Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: patch: ext2 flags handling | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 06 Sep 1999 11:25:58 +0200 |
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Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <jcastro@appi.com.br> writes:
|> Jes Sorensen wrote: |> |> > Hi |> > |> > There is a bug in the ext2 flags handling it seems. The xor trick it |> > uses doesn't work since ATTR_FLAG_APPEND != EXT_APPEND_FL and |> > ATTR_FLAG_IMMUTABLE != EXT2_IMMUTABLE_FL. |> > |> > This one is actually from Andreas (credit where credit is due). |> > |> > Jes |> |> Uh, BTW, what are the possible ill effects of this bug?
I don't think that it has any ill effects. It only means that an inode that is marked immutable or append-only can have all its other attributes only be changed by a user capable of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE, but I think this is already enforced by the VFS anyway.
Andreas.
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