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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix user.* xattr permission check for sticky dirs
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On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 17:59 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >The user.* extended attributes are only allowed on regular files and
> >directories. Sticky directories further restrict write access to the
> >owner and privileged users. (See the attr(5) man page for an
> >explanation.)
> >
>
> Does this effect ACL handling for sticky dirs in any way?

No. xattr_permission (which this patch hits) always returns 0 for
system.* attributes and leaves it to the file system to handle.

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


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