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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.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-03 21:04 UTC|newest]

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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     [not found] ` <2dZjf-7BP-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <2dZsQ-7GF-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <2dZVV-867-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <2e0oZ-8lm-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <2emSs-6R8-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <2enbS-72q-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <2env9-7li-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-07-04 22:25               ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-04 22:37                 ` FabF
2004-07-04 23:30                   ` Paul Jackson

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