Thinking about this a bit more.  It would be nice if in the future
version of the AFSFetchStatus structure there was a flag that indicated to a client whether or not the access rights specified on the directory apply to all of the objects within the directory. This would make the
client much more efficient in that case.

I did wonder if one way around this problem might be to define that a directory which contains per-file ACLs has a directory ACL which conveys no permission at all. There could then be a separate 'default' ACL managed via the new RPCs.

A client which sets the first per-file ACL in the directory would clear the directory ACL, having first warned the user that doing so will result in legacy clients being unable to access files in that directory.

Thoughts?

S.



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