Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Jul 2004 10:50:19 +0900 | From | Clemens Schwaighofer <> | Subject | Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x |
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viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: | On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 02:55:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: | |>Some do. On my test box 1000-odd /proc inodes get allocated and fully |>freed on each `ls -R /proc'. 65 /proc inodes are freed during `ls -lR |>/proc/net'. So maybe it isn't working completely. |> |>But proc_notify_change() copies the inode's uid, gid and mode into the |>proc_dir_entry, so they get correctly initialised when the inode is |>reinstantiated, so afaict we have no bug here. | | | Why on the earth do we ever want to allow chown/chmod on procfs in the first | place?
Well perhaps I am on the wrong track but eg /proc/bus/usb/002/005 is my digital camera and unless its either world rw or owned by me (user) I can't get any pictures unless I make myself root.
So yes, I would want to have chown/chmod in procfs ...
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