On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:19:28PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.37-2sarge1
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
>
> Please emit an error message when the user tries to set the c/u/s
> attributes as they are not in effect with current implementations.
> A user coming from another environment may falsely assume his/her
> data to be compresses/undeletable/secure-deleted when in fact this
> is not true and no warning has been emitted.
_What_ other environment? The man page does give a warning that
current kernels may not support these attributes.
The problem is that e2fsprogs doesn't know whether or not the kernel
is going to honor those attributes. Emitting an error/warning message
may very well become inaccurate in the future.
- Ted
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