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Re: coreutils-8.20.patch002
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Eric Blake |
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Re: coreutils-8.20.patch002 |
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Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:07:36 -0700 |
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On 02/10/2013 11:34 AM, Alexey Potehin wrote:
> Hello people!
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> This is path for chmod speedup (chmod only if newmode != oldmode), in
> attach too:
I'm not sure this is a good idea. chmod() may have side effects such as
resetting ACLs, even when the struct stat.st_mode bits are unchanged; so
omitting the call into the kernel would unintentionally miss out on
those side effects.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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