Bug#310757: There are file systems without POSIX semantics

2005-05-26 Thread gary ng
Forgive me ignorance. Would the same situation happens in say SMB/CIFS ? To the server, the authentication would still be whoever mount it from the client side. I don't think this is a bug(if it is at all) worth RC status. __ Do you Yahoo!?

Bug#310757: There are file systems without POSIX semantics

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:12:04PM -0700, gary ng wrote: Forgive me ignorance. Would the same situation happens in say SMB/CIFS ? To the server, the authentication would still be whoever mount it from the client side. I don't think this is a bug(if it is at all) worth RC status. SMB/CIFS

Bug#310757: There are file systems without POSIX semantics

2005-05-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach gary ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.05.26.0812 +0200]: Forgive me ignorance. Would the same situation happens in say SMB/CIFS ? To the server, the authentication would still be whoever mount it from the client side. If I mount a SMB/CIFS share with umask 0700, nobody but myself can

Bug#310757: There are file systems without POSIX semantics

2005-05-25 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Hi, Disclaimer: I don't know davfs2 and I don't use. But I disgree that every file system should implement POSIX access semantics. There are production class systems that don't, e.g. the Andrew file system. And as Coda, which according to the package description is used as the backend, is a

Bug#310757: There are file systems without POSIX semantics

2005-05-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.05.26.0109 +0200]: Disclaimer: I don't know davfs2 and I don't use. But I disgree that every file system should implement POSIX access semantics. There are production class systems that don't, e.g. the Andrew file system. And as Coda,

Bug#310757: There are file systems without POSIX semantics

2005-05-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:40:19AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.05.26.0109 +0200]: Disclaimer: I don't know davfs2 and I don't use. But I disgree that every file system should implement POSIX access semantics. There are production