Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:40:37 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: caps in elf headers: use the sticky bit! |
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Hi!
> wrt many of the 'sticky bit' problems, Eric Biederman made the excellent > (and I believe completely correct) suggestion of requiring both the sticky > bit and the immutable bit, which solves the problem of booting an older > kernel, since users can't set the immutable bit. I've been thinking some > about the best semantics for this, but you can derive them as well. A lot > of the real work can be done in userspace and taken out of the > kernel.
Too bad this is not option: immutable bit is ext2 specific. These are not only nfs problems you would have to face: there are also umsdos and tar and coda and ... problems.
Pavel
PS: Sorry, immutable bit just is not correctly supported these days.
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