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Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:18:25 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        danny@panda.hilink.com.au, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.4BSD NFS File Handles (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199703070718.SAA05596@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I've worked on other systems in the past where we only returned
>st_gen if the caller was root.

Why return it at all?  It is not used by any application in /usr/src.

Don't apply the suggested patch without fixing it.  It sets the ASU
accounting flag for all processes with euid root just for calling stat().
It has style bugs.

Bruce
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