Hi,
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:20:00PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Stephen, you write:
> > The 2.2 notify_change is far more correct than the 2.4 one. For
> > example, 2.4 blocks the notify_change if you aren't the file owner,
> > but write access alone should be quite enough if you're doing a
> > ftruncate.
>
> So this is what my patch is fixing.
Right, but you're best starting off with the 2.2 code than the 2.4
code if you want to do this.
> What happened to the attribute flag setting code that is in
> ext2_notify_change? It isn't in the generic inode_setattr code. Is the
> only method of updating these attributes via ioctl?
At present, yes.
Cheers,
Stephen
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