From: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.17.5
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:55:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060715075512.GA1666@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607142217020.5623@g5.osdl.org>
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:21:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It still leaves the whole issue of whether /proc should honor chmod AT ALL
> open,
Hmm, can you explain why notify_change (fs/attr.c) don't bail out if the
inode lacks the setattr function and instead just sets the new
permissions?
I really think this is the wrong way and inodes which want this default
behaviour should explicitely define it.
Bastian
--
Each kiss is as the first.
-- Miramanee, Kirk's wife, "The Paradise Syndrome",
stardate 4842.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-15 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-15 3:00 Linux 2.6.17.5 Greg KH
2006-07-15 3:01 ` Greg KH
2006-07-15 3:28 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-07-15 4:20 ` Greg KH
2006-07-15 23:59 ` Matthew Frost
2006-07-16 0:08 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-15 5:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-15 7:55 ` Bastian Blank [this message]
2006-07-15 8:28 ` Daniel Drake
2006-07-15 15:46 ` Von Wolher
2006-07-15 18:48 ` Greg KH
2006-07-15 18:50 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2006-07-15 19:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
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