Bharata B Rao wrote:
Not really. This is called during copyup of a file residing in a lower layer. And that is done only for regular files.
That is broken.You should be able to change the permissions on a device node on a layer that is RO.
so it would copy it up (1. mknod, 2. copy attributes) and then the appropriate attribute notification change would be called.
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