Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9]
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-07-12 20:47:47
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- 2018-07-19 · Re: [PATCH 24/32] vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation [ver #9] · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:34 PM Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:
This is the whole "write() is only for data". If you ever have credentials mattering at write time, you're doing something wrong. Really really. Don't do it.
.. and I'd like to repeat: we *have* done things wrong. But that's
simply not an excuse. We've done it wrong in SCSI, we've done it wrong
in various /proc files, we've done it wrong in many places.
But let's not do it wrong AGAIN.
Linus