Re: [patch] Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre6] truncate(2) permissions

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 10:24:31 EST

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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> yet. So far you only said that a different implementation, i.e. a
> different place to put the checks, is preferrable.

-EPERM returned by permission() if we ask for write access to immutable.

Al, currently walking through the /usr/share/man/man2 and swearing silently...

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