Re: [Nfs-ganesha-devel] is_superuser fsal export API

2018-04-10 Thread Sriram Patil
Thanks for the clarification, Frank. From: Frank Filz Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 10:32 PM To: Sriram Patil , "nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: RE: [Nfs-ganesha-devel] is_superuser fsal export API The create calls and unlink all rely on the underlying filesy

Re: [Nfs-ganesha-devel] is_superuser fsal export API

2018-04-10 Thread Frank Filz
The create calls and unlink all rely on the underlying filesystem to do permission checks. This is because there is no way for Ganesha to atomically check permissions in a directory and do an operation that adds or removes a directory entry. Also, some FSAL_VFS operations set the thread cred