On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
>But they do! Device identity, owner, group, permissions; soon ACLs and
No, they take _inode_ space NOT _data_ space. (I hate that facet of UNIX.)
>> If you define "clean solution" as '/usr/bin/vi'... either alter the
(read: edit the kernel source to redefine "default")
>I wouldn't want to have to set permissions on my files by editing a file,
>which can (and Murphy assures us, _will_) get lost or corrupted. And reset
>it to what, by whom? What if the machine is running low on space, so the
>chown/chmod can't run (or is plain overloaded, so it runs slowly), and some
>attacker has a field day with leftover default permissions?
That is a problem that will forever exist in userspace. I always try to
avoid making kernel internals dependant on userspace crap -- it's a mess
in progress. (unavoidable in some cases, tho')
--Ricky
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