Re: Using tame() in userland

[trondd]

On 2015-08-29 06:05, Steven McDonald wrote:

I think chmod fits in the "cannot be tamed" category. tame(2) says of
chmod(2) and friends:

    Setuid/setgid bits do not work, nor can the user or group be
    changed on a file.

This breaks 'chmod u+s'.

I ran into this when building Xenocara.

Also upon reboot (after building a tamed userland) mkdir is getting 
killed with "syscall 15" right after "clearing /tmp"

Seems to be in Setup_X_sockets making a directory with a specific mode.

Tim.