Re: [RFC v6 03/40] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD permission flags

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

2015-08-28 22:44 GMT+02:00 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> The MAY_DELETE_SELF permission does not override the sticky
>> directory check.  It probably should.
>
> I guess it would basically just let the file owner delegate permission
> to delete your file to a non-owner?  Makes sense to me to allow that.

Yes, independent of whether or not the process has MAY_DELETE_CHILD
access on the directory but not independent of the sticky directory
check, which is a bit of a weird combination.

Andreas
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