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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > > Actually the patch you reference above looks extremly bogus and should just
> > > be reverted instead.
> > 
> > Why is it "extremely bogus"?  I assume Olaf had a reason for wanting chmod
> > on procfs files?
> 
> Because it turns the question what permissions a procfs file has into
> a lottery game.  He only changes the incore inode owner and as soon as
> the inode is reclaimed the old ones return.

procfs inodes aren't reclaimable.

chrisw fixed this bug a couple of days ago.