Re: [nfsv4] proposed slight change to ACCESS and wordsmithing changes for chapter 18 (thru the LINK operation)

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no>]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 15:00 -0700, Mike Eisler wrote:
> http://eisler.com/nfsv4-wg/2008-04-07-ch18_thru_link.html
> 
> The slight change to ACCESS is require that servers only
> look at the execute bits when determining if a user can execute
> the file. The rationale is in the proposed changes.

While the rules seem sane enough for POSIX clients and server, I'm still
a tad confused. Don't these rules mean that Windows servers may never
set ACCESS4_EXECUTE because NTFS doesn't support execute mode bits?

If so, won't that cause an interoperability issue?

Cheers
  Trond

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