Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:39:45 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4BSD NFS File Handles (fwd) Message-ID: <199703070739.XAA23010@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199703070718.SAA05596@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 7, 97 06:18:25 pm
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Bruce Evans wrote: > > >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. It was actually useful for some in-house root only application we had. It was also useful for debugging purposes for for a root user to be able to run a little program that that dumped out the stat structure. I can examplin the application in some detail if anyone is interested, but I would hate to seest_gen not be returned at all, since there are some uses for it. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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