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SubjectRe: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:16:27PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig scribbled:
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> > 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:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/chown.html
This being clear, maybe it should be a compile-time option in XFS? Or
would that be unacceptable?

marek
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