Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262427AbVDLPBr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:01:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262430AbVDLPBS (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:01:18 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:15776 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262427AbVDLOpo (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:45:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:45:29 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: "Bodo Eggert " <7eggert@gmx.de> Cc: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits) Message-ID: <20050412144529.GE10995@mail.shareable.org> References: <3S8oN-So-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oM-So-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <3SbPN-3T4-19@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1238 Lines: 28 Bodo Eggert wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > >>???4)?Access?should?not?be?further?restricted?for?the?owner?of?the > >>??????mount,?even?if?permission?bits,?uid?or?gid?would?suggest > >>??????otherwise > >? > >?Why???Surely?you?want?to?prevent?writing?to?files?which?don't?have?the > >?writable?bit?set???A?filesystem?may?also?create?append-only?files?- > >?and?all?users?including?the?mount?owner?should?be?bound?by?that. > > That?will?depend?on?the?situation.?If?the?user?is?mounting?a?tgz?owned > by?himself,?FUSE?should?default?to?being?a?convenient?hex-editor. If the user wants to edit a read-only file in a tgz owned by himself, why can he not _chmod_ the file and _then_ edit it? That said, I would _usually_ prefer that when I enter a tgz, that I see all component files having the same uid/gid/permissions as the tgz file itself - the same as I'd see if I entered a zip file. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/