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>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
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>> The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
>> which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
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>No. Th epatch breaks things. You cannot use "permission" at that point,
>and the code was removed on purpose before. Nobody co
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>On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
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>> The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
>> which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
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>I would reserve "broken" for original state. What's wrong with "if you
>want write permissions to be checked during open() - op
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:26:33PM +0200, Alain Knaff wrote:
> The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
> which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
> + /* Allow ioctls if we have write-permissions even if read-only open.
> + * Needed so that programs suc
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Alain Knaff wrote:
> The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
> which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
I would reserve "broken" for original state. What's wrong with "if you
want write permissions to be checked during open() - open the bl
Alain,
Al Viro, myself and Linus broke this intentionally. Please read the
comments we put in blkdev_get() in fs/block_dev.c and understand that this
is a non-trivial issue - we had an interesting conversation about it -
unfortunately all my mailfolders are gone (as a side-effect of truncate
issu
The following patch (against 2.4.0-test8) restores ioctl functionality,
which has been broken in 2.4.0-test6-pre7:
--- 2.4.0-test8/linux/drivers/block/floppy.cMon Sep 11 20:09:28 2000
+++ linux/drivers/block/floppy.cSat Sep 16 15:03:39 2000
@@ -3435,6 +3435,8 @@
static int fd_ioctl(s
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