Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/18/1998 16:14:40
>> Modified Files:
>> ufs_vnops.c
>> Log Message:
>> Move some permission-checking code for file owner/group changes up to
>> vfs_syscalls.c::change_owner(). Also, always update the inode's change time
>> if the operation succeeds.
>
>The first half of this change (moving the permissions check up to
>vfs_syscalls.c) make things somewhat inconvenient for third-party
>filesystems like AFS which have their own permission model.
Ouch, I didn't realize the implications of this. I use AFS every day
on NetBSD; doing this would really screw me (and others).
Can we please back this change out?
--Ken