Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] afs, bash: Fix open(O_CREAT) on an extant AFS file in a sticky dir

Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:16:31 -0400

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-nfs,org.kernel.vger.linux-cifs,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
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On 7/23/26 10:00 AM, David Howells wrote:

> As a result the Bash fallback logic masks an incompatibility between the
> ownership checks performed by may_create_in_sticky() and network
> filesystems such as AFS where the uid namespace is disjoint from the uid
> namespace of the local system.
> 
> However, the bash work around is going to be removed[2].

This was removed in bash-5.3, the current version. That may not make as big
a difference as you think -- some Linux distributions still ship with
bash-4.2 -- but it will become more common over time.

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