On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:58:38AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:40:33 +1000 > Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Ok, you convinced me. > > Right. When I was first looking at this, I considered some similar > approaches, but hit roadblocks with all of them. The only real option > seems to be to leave this to the server, but that does assume that the > server handles this properly. > > Servers that don't are broken, IMO. According to what spec? A quick trip around the machine room shows that neither Solaris 10 nor Darwin 7.9.0 clobber setuid on write either. > If Irix isn't clearing these bits > on a write then it might be good to see if they can fix that... I think first you'd have to mount a serious argument that it's broken, more serious than "it works differently from Linux". Greg. -- Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. Apparently, I'm Bedevere. Which MPHG character are you? I don't speak for SGI. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
