Hi,
I'm sorry for being silent for such a long time. At the end the customer
decided that he does not want the fix. So I won't push either.
For the record, to test whether chown and chmod operation should be
swapped one can use
if (pathconf(ifname, _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED) == -1 && errno == 0)
Tha
> > Right. On the other hand, doing always chmod before chown on Solaris
> > would also work, if I understand things correctly.
>
> But chown sometimes fiddles with setuid and setgid bits, and when it
> does that, that would introduce a bug.
That is true (unless the user has special privileges).
Hi,
> > On solaris you can mount given filesystem with norstchown parameter
> > which gives the owner of the file the ability to chown the file to
> > someone else.
>
> Yes, that's true. But this is unusual -- I've never
> seen it done, and I've used a lot of Solaris systems.
> Who uses it and w
