Re: [PATCH] cramfs is ro only, so honour this in inode->mode

[Doug McNaught]

"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Shane Nay writes:
> 
> > but the bits are useless in the "normal interpretation" of it,
> ...
> > But then you pull out the write bits,
> 
> If you need to steal a bit, grab one that won't hurt.
> Take the owner's read bit. (owner may read own files)

Er,

bash-2.03$ cd /tmp
bash-2.03$ cat >foo
This is a test.
bash-2.03$ chmod u-r foo
bash-2.03$ cat foo
cat: foo: Permission denied
bash-2.03$ ls -l foo
--w-r--r--    1 doug     doug           16 Jan  9 09:16 foo
bash-2.03$ 

This is Linux 2.4.0.

-Doug
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