Re: chown and security
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:27:39 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > 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!).
Done.
Linus
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