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In-reply-to: <20050412144529.GE10995@mail.shareable.org> (message from Jamie
	Lokier on Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:45:29 +0100)
Subject: Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)
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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:19:41 +0200
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> 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.

I can accept that usually you are not interested in the stored
uid/gid.  But doubt that you want to lose permission information when
you mount a tar file.  Zip is a different kettle of fish since that
doesn't contain uid/gid/permissions.

Miklos
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