Kernel quality control, or the lack thereof

Posted Dec 7, 2018 19:21 UTC (Fri) by zblaxell (subscriber, #26385)
Parent article: Kernel quality control, or the lack thereof

> users could overwrite a setuid file without resetting the setuid bits, time stamps would not be updated,

I always have to read these patch sets to make sure that when the above are features, they aren't getting removed.

There's a "if (!is_dedupe)" in the code, so it's all good.