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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp>
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Subject: Re: 4.4BSD NFS File Handles (fwd)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:39:45 -0800 (PST)
Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au, freebsd-security@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"