Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas | From | Steve Lord <> | Date | 25 Jun 2003 10:25:26 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:11:40AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > > This is all backwards compatibility with folks expecting Irix behavior, > > and I think on Irix it is even a backwards compatibility thing. If we > > were not having a major power outage at work right now I could look > > 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
Thanks, I also found out that the unrestricted chown behavior is the way AT&T system V did it originally. I vote for this being a legacy thing.
Steve
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