Re: [PATCH] new syscall: flink

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
7 Apr 2003 13:35:12 -0700

Followup to: <20030407165009.13596.qmail@email.com>
By author: "Clayton Weaver" <cgweav@email.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Since the client owns the new directory entry, it can chmod the
> inode to have any permissions it wants, create or modify an ACL
> where ACLs are in use, modify a capabilities mask more fine-grained
> than traditional unix permissions if something like that is in use,
> etc.
>

Uhm, no. Ownership is an inode property.

-hpa

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