Re: [2.5.73-mm1 XFS] restrict_chown and quotas

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:11:40AM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > This is all backwards compatibility with folks expecting Irix behavior,
> > and I think on Irix it is even a backwards compatibility thing. If we
> > were not having a major power outage at work right now I could look
> > at Irix and confirm this. Imposing different semantics on the rest of
> > the filesystems did not seem like the right thing to do.
> 
> Actually there's a posix option group for finding out exactly that,
> (see http://people.redhat.com/drepper/posix-option-groups.html#CHOWN_RESTRICTED)
> but yeah it might be more of a legacy thing.
> 
> Adding a common sysctl for this would allow glibc to properly implement
> patchconf(..., _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED), but it seems SuSv2/3 sais it must
> be always defined:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/chown.html

Thanks, I also found out that the unrestricted  chown behavior is the
way AT&T system V did it originally. I vote for this being a legacy
thing.

Steve