On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:57:25AM +0530, Niraj Kumar wrote: > > > Unrestricted chown: adds "unrestricted_chown" mount option. > > Add a new unrestricted_chown mount option to the VFS. This option is > used to disable the Posix _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED chown option on a given > filesystem which forbids non-privilegued users to give away files. > > This is currently implemented by XFS as a sysctl, but making it per > filesystem and available not just for XFS makes more sense. This has > also been requested in http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=768. How the hell does that behaviour make any sense *anywhere*, XFS or no XFS? And why would we want to emulate IRIX misfeatures? -- 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
