Re: Linux 2.6.17.5

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:21:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It still leaves the whole issue of whether /proc should honor chmod AT ALL 
> open,

Hmm, can you explain why notify_change (fs/attr.c) don't bail out if the
inode lacks the setattr function and instead just sets the new
permissions?

I really think this is the wrong way and inodes which want this default
behaviour should explicitely define it.

Bastian

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