On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:23:08 -0700 Russ Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I run a plan 9 cpu server in Qemu and use drawterm to connect from the > > Linux host. > > I thought the /mnt/term mechanism would be very convenient for exchanging > > files > > between host & guest, but the guest sees all user/group names as > > unknown/unknown, preventing writing. > > That's surprising. Drawterm isn't going around enforcing > permission bits: if it can write, it writes. What it shows > you in ls is what it gets from stat, but it doesn't rely on > that to make decisions about what you can open. It just > tries to open it.
Oh now I get it: drawterm isn't enforcing permissions but the plan 9 kernel is, on seeing a dir with user/group = unknown/unknown and perms bits = 755 it won't allow creation within that dir. At least, I assume that's what's going on. -- Ethan Grammatikidis The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
