From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Remove restricted_chown parameter
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:33:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080930093343.GA22444@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E15869.6080506@sandeen.net>
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:36:25PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > From: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
> >
> > On Linux all filesystems are supposed to be operating under
> > Posix' restricted chown. Restricted chown means it restricts
> > chown to the owner unless you have CAP_FOWNER.
> >
> > [hch: forward-ported to the current tree]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Looks fine to me, but you should also update
> Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt too, and remove the docs for the knob
> (or maybe mark it obsolete, w/ the above explanation?)
Makes sense, I'll update it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-30 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-29 21:53 [PATCH 2/3] Remove restricted_chown parameter Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-29 22:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-09-30 9:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-10-01 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-07 20:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2008-10-26 20:35 [PATCH 2/3] remove " Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-27 13:36 Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-28 2:54 ` Dave Chinner
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