Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:39:43 +0200 | From | Marek Habersack <> | Subject | Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas |
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:16:27PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig scribbled: [snip] > > 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?
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