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Re: Error (typo) in quotacheck(8)



On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, Robert Elz wrote:
>   | And, in both dqget() and setquota(), I don't quite understand the special
>   | handling of dq_id being zero when manipulating the tine values.
> 
> zero is root, root gets no quotas by definition, so calculating grace
> times would be fairly meaningless.   At least I expect that's what it
> is doing, given that I have never looked at the time part of quotas.

If that's what it's doing, then a new request like
KAUTH_REQ_SYSTEM_QUOTA_BYPASS should probably be added to the kauth(9)
framework.  Or at least use KAUTH_GENERIC_ISSUSER as a placeholder for
now.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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