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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:49, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:47:40PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > But how do you cache the information you had to look in the archive
> > for in a way that other apps can use it?
> 
> ~/.object-cache/ or whatever
> 

How are permissions handled?  If root lists the contents of a tar file
that is world readable, then joeuser comes along and does the same, can
joeuser sees the cached listing?  Would it depend on root's umask?

Lee

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