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From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mishin Dmitry <dim@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move IMMUTABLE|APPEND checks to notify_change()
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:07:28 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D9A5D0.5020406@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060808203814.GO29920@ftp.linux.org.uk>

>>[PATCH] move IMMUTABLE|APPEND checks to notify_change()
>>
>>This patch moves lots of IMMUTABLE and APPEND flag checks
>>scattered all around to more logical place in notify_change().
> 
>  
> NAK.  For example, you are allowed to do unames(file, NULL) on
> any file you own or can write to, whether it's append-only or
> not.  With your change that gets -EPERM.

Al, will you ACK the patch allowing to set current times in notify_change() for
APPEND files?

However, I'd like to see an explanation on dim@'s question why semantics
are different and current time is allowed to be set, while arbitrary time is not.

Kirill


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 11:44 [PATCH] move IMMUTABLE|APPEND checks to notify_change() Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-08 20:38 ` Al Viro
2006-08-09  7:15   ` Dmitry Mishin
2006-08-09 14:11     ` Al Viro
2006-08-09  9:07   ` Kirill Korotaev [this message]
2006-08-09 10:11   ` Kirill Korotaev

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