Re: chown32() weirdness

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:02:51AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> > Ok, I guess this is a difference between Irix and Linux...
>
> There are two possible chown semantics.  Linux has a restricted chown
> by default that only allows root to change owners and thus defines
> _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED. 
>
> Some other systems (dunno about IRIX) allow both variants, depending
> on configuration.  Then pathconf() with _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is used to
> find out which semantics apply to a specific filename.
>
>         Christoph

Irix does support both, and by removing the double permissions check I 
made xfs
fall back to the default Irix behavior. Looks like Eric has around found 
the switch
inside xfs to make this work the linux way.

Steve