Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] vfs, afs, bash: Fix miscomparison of foreign user IDs in the VFS

David Howells <[email protected]>
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Christian Brauner <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Note that chown may also need modifying in some way - but that can't
> > necessarily supply the information required (for instance, an AuriStor YFS
> > ID is 64 bits, but chown can only handle a 32-bit integer; CIFS might use
> > a GUID).
> 
> Seems that some other changes are required for this. I'll take a look
> once a new version is out.

If you're referring to the chown thing, can we ignore that for now?  It would
probably need some sort of new system call, but I don't know how that should
look for now.

David
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