From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de
Subject: Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:04:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040703210407.GA11773@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040703133556.44b70d60.akpm@osdl.org>
> > 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.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-03 20:22 procfs permissions on 2.6.x Herbert Poetzl
2004-07-03 20:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-03 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-03 21:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-07-03 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-04 21:35 ` viro
2004-07-04 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-04 22:13 ` viro
2004-07-04 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-06 3:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-07-05 1:50 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-05 1:55 ` viro
2004-07-05 8:05 ` Duncan Sands
2004-07-05 8:14 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-07-04 1:27 ` bert hubert
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2004-07-04 22:25 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-04 22:37 ` FabF
2004-07-04 23:30 ` Paul Jackson
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