In 2.5.8pre3 root cannot chown his files to some mortal.
I have not read the code but blindly made the change below,
and that fixed this particular problem for me.
Andries
--- /linux/2.5/linux-2.5.8-pre3/linux/fs/open.c Fri Apr 12 12:10:48 2002
+++ ./open.c Tue Apr 16 00:00:38 2002
@@ -522,13 +522,13 @@
error = -EPERM;
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
goto out;
- newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME;
+ newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME;
if (user != (uid_t) -1) {
- newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_UID;
+ newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_UID;
newattrs.ia_uid = user;
}
if (group != (gid_t) -1) {
- newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_GID;
+ newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_GID;
newattrs.ia_gid = group;
}
if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-
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