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    SubjectRe: caps in elf headers: use the sticky bit!
    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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