2015-08-28 22:44 GMT+02:00 J. Bruce Fields <bfie...@fieldses.org>: >> The MAY_DELETE_SELF permission does not override the sticky >> directory check. It probably should. > > I guess it would basically just let the file owner delegate permission > to delete your file to a non-owner? Makes sense to me to allow that.
Yes, independent of whether or not the process has MAY_DELETE_CHILD access on the directory but not independent of the sticky directory check, which is a bit of a weird combination. Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
