From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic on 32bit arch
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:29:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EE3F7B.6040802@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081009122319.GC1623@ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
> We have append-only files, and normal users should not be able to work
> around that restriction.
Well, apparently Posix breaks this, and we're supposed to let pwrite()
write anywhere in an O_APPEND file. So any security-related argument
goes out the window.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 5:07 [RESEND] [PATCH] VFS: make file->f_pos access atomic on 32bit arch Hisashi Hifumi
2008-10-07 6:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 10:11 ` Hisashi Hifumi
2008-10-07 10:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-07 16:27 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-07 17:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-07 18:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-08 2:35 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08 2:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-09 12:23 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-09 12:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-10-09 13:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-09 13:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-10-09 14:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-09 17:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-10-08 4:48 ` Hisashi Hifumi
2008-10-08 5:10 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08 5:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-08 6:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-08 6:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-08 8:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-10-08 8:48 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08 9:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-09 21:51 ` dcg
2008-10-10 2:25 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-09 12:16 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-08 0:40 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-07 18:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
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