Bug 33915

Summary:	Re: Documentet behaviour of SF_flags for non-SU is wrong
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Joerg Schilling <schilling>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	GNATS administrator <gnats-admin>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	schilling
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Joerg Schilling 2002-01-15 10:10:01 UTC

 >From brandt@fokus.gmd.de Mon Jan 14 17:27:17 2002
 
 >	
 >>Description:
 
 >	The man 2 chflags man page is wrong in its description how the
 >	flags are handled in some cases:
 
 >	1. The non-superuser is not allowed to change any flag if one of
 >	SF_IMMUTABLE, SF_APPEND, SF_NOUNLINK are set. While the first is
 >	abvious the other two cases are not and should be documentet.
 
 >	2. The non-superuser is not allowed to SET any SF_* flag. Doing
 >	so results in EPERM returned (this is contrary to the man page).
 
 >	3. Clearing a SF_* flag by the superuser is silently ignored.
 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 This should read: Clearing a SF_* flag by the non-superuser is silently ignored.
 
 Jörg
 
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Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer

2002-01-24 00:37:54 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This was not caught by gnats.  Was feedback to PR 33877. 
I copied relevant parts to the audit trail of 33877.