> Chris, Alan - there is a clean solution for that. And I'm going to ask Ted
> and Stephen for such thing. The problem being: we don't support full
> immutable/append-only semantics. Original implementation has a neat
> detail - there are *two* Immutable flags: user and system. VFS looks for
> UF_IMMUTABLE|SF_IMMUTABLE - it doesn't care which one is set. *But*
IMHO, immutable support is fine as it is - as Alan has rightly said,
giving users the opportunity to set some variant of immutable on their
files, is dangerous.
My original patch simply fixes a bug whereby a user with CAP_IMMUTABLE
could play with files other than ones they own.
Chris
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