Valerie Aurora: > 1. Don't copyup if the operation would fail (e.g., open(O_WRONLY) on a > file with mode 444). It's inefficient and a possible security hole to > copy up a file if no write (or maybe even read) can occur anyway. Just a question. How about this case? When the file is writable (0644 or something) but its parent directory is readonly (0555), do you think the file should be copied-up? J. R. Okajima -- 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
