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 such as fdrawcmd still can work on write
> + * protected disks */
> + if ((filp->f_mode & 2) || (permission(inode,2) == 0))
> + filp->f_mode |= FD_IOCTL_MODE_BIT;
Strange obscure kludges.
In util-linux 2.10o fdformat was fixed to work with 2.4.0test6.
In util-linux 2.10p (not yet released) setfdprm is fixed.
Only if there are programs that cannot be fixed we should
look at the kernel code again. But not go back to the old state.
Andries
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