On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 12:50:14PM +0200, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Sep 06, 2009 13:39 +0000, Florian Weimer wrote: > > The FIBMAP ioctl requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO, but FIEMAP doesn't. Why's > > that? Is it that there is no backwards-compatible way to introduce > > locking on the bmap path? > > I'm not sure why there is a root-only requirement for FIBMAP Historical reasons, I suspect --- back then only LILO needed it, and whoever added it decided it was safer only to allow root to have access to it. I don't think there's any good justification for FIBMAP to require privileges. - Ted -- 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
