On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:13:34PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:03:56PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > > Yeah, the more I think about it the more I agree. It's a simple > > story - you're creating a file with ownership !you, you need > > owner_or_cap. > > Stupid question --- why not create the file with ownership == you? > It's a new inode, so this should be trivially easy to do, right? Because then you have to change the entire security structure, and you aren't a snapshot anymore. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #451 "Don't be afraid to say, 'I'm sorry.'" Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- 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
