Why can we still not do this? It's a stupid restriction. Security isn't a reason; we have SE Linux policy and auditing to take care of any issues. Heck, SE Linux policy could even deny this feature for the truly paranoid.
Writing to /dev/* to update timestamps is surely a worse security situation. (see "dump" program) Ideally we'd have atomic update in some way. That might mean feeding the old times into the system call, so that the kernel can fail it if any changes have happened meanwhile. Maybe the syscall could take a pair of "struct stat" even, making the operation really easy and powerful. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/