> > Updating the man pages for system calls, I noticed
> > that we have an lchown these days. Hopefully everybody
> > is aware of the fact that every old chown(1) is now a
> > security risk on every recent Linux system.
>
> That surprised me too. I would have expected that lchown()
> would get the system call number of the old chown().
I suspect this is the _right_ way to solve this. What do you think?
(It adds a bit of mess into 2.1.X series, but once we are at 2.1.86,
we will be nicely backward compatible!).
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu