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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: test12-pre6


On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > error = -EPERM;
> > if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
> > goto dput_and_out;
>
> also, while we are here -- are you sure that EPERM is a good idea for
> IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)? Other parts of Linux return EACCES in this
> case. Maybe it would be more consistent to do EACCES here too? This would
> simply mean remove IS_IMMUTABLE() from the above if because
> vfs_permission() does return -EACCES if we ask MAY_WRITE for IS_IMMUTABLE
> inode.
>
> Since, the SuSv2 standard is silent on the issue of immutable files (they
> are Linux-specific) then it may make sense to be consistent?

They are not Linux-specific (check where they came from), so I would rather
check 4.4BSD and SuSv2[1] be damned. I'll look it up tomorrow, right now I'm
going down. Sorry.

[1] gotta love the CaPiTaLi2aTi0n, BTW.

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