Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:16:27 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas |
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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:
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