Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:43:45 +1000 | From | Greg Banks <> | Subject | Re: [NFS] [PATCH 2/7] NFS: if ATTR_KILL_S*ID bits are set, then skip mode change |
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:58:38AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:40:33 +1000 > Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com> wrote: > > > > Ok, you convinced me. > > Right. When I was first looking at this, I considered some similar > approaches, but hit roadblocks with all of them. The only real option > seems to be to leave this to the server, but that does assume that the > server handles this properly. > > Servers that don't are broken, IMO.
According to what spec? A quick trip around the machine room shows that neither Solaris 10 nor Darwin 7.9.0 clobber setuid on write either.
> If Irix isn't clearing these bits > on a write then it might be good to see if they can fix that...
I think first you'd have to mount a serious argument that it's broken, more serious than "it works differently from Linux".
Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. Apparently, I'm Bedevere. Which MPHG character are you? I don't speak for SGI. - 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/
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