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Re: chown32() weirdness

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: chown32() weirdness
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:12:15 +0100
Cc: Wessel Dankers <wsl@fruit.eu.org>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202181050220.17806-100000@chuckle.americas.sgi.com>; from sandeen@sgi.com on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:02:51AM -0600
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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

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