Re: [PATCH] add unrestricted_chown option to vfs (mount)

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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.
> 
This sysctl has actually been removed in the sgi xfs tree.
So it will be going from mainline.

--Tim
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