On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:58 PM, Tony Wallace <t...@tony.gen.nz> wrote: > Good point. But there are gid and uid fields in inode disc record. > > https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout#Inode_Table > > I assume these can be use to ensure that the directory in which it is to > be placed has permissions to accept the inode. If that is not the case > then it would have to be a root only syscall.
Before we dig into details, please come up with a very good use case. :-) But I'm with Bernd, I don't think it is worth the permissions hassle. -- Thanks, //richard
