From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9S2sc57002567 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:54:39 -0700 Received: from ipmail05.adl2.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 55C8A1495774 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail05.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.145]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id WCkqTTW2vyQeP51n for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:54:33 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] remove restricted_chown parameter Message-ID: <20081028025433.GO4985@disturbed> References: <20081027133637.GC761@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081027133637.GC761@infradead.org> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Tim Shimmin On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:36:37AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > From: Tim Shimmin > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com