linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] afs, bash: Fix open(O_CREAT) on an extant AFS file in a sticky dir

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Message-ID: <b548ee65-3a54-43d7-aa6d-36e31cbf16f9@case.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:36:37 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@...e.edu>
To: Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman@...istor.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: chet.ramey@...e.edu, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Etienne Champetier <champetier.etienne@...il.com>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        openafs-devel@...nafs.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] afs, bash: Fix open(O_CREAT) on an extant AFS file in a
 sticky dir

On 4/30/25 1:26 PM, Jeffrey E Altman wrote:
> On 4/30/2025 12:14 PM, David Howells wrote:
>> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@...e.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, except for CMU's report.
>> Do you know of any link for that?  I'm guessing that is it was 1992, 
>> there may
>> be no online record of it.
>>
>> David
> 
> https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.bash.bug/c/6PPTfOgFdL4/m/2AQU-S1N76UJ?hl=en

Which of course just claims they reported it, but doesn't include the
report itself.

But Jeffrey's message seems to indicate that IBM addressed this particular
issue in AFS 3.2.

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