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 16:42 -0700, Mike Eisler wrote:
> If you don't have said, then we are open to misinterpretations. E.g.
> 
> $ ls -l a.out
> ls -l a.out
> ---x--x--x 1 mre mkgroup-l-d 16642 Mar 31 21:59 a.out
> 
> 
> Now, we want
> 
>     test -x a.out
> 
> to succeed, and
> 
>     test -r a.out
> 
> to fail, correct?
> 
> With the proposed text, we allow programs like 'test' to rely completely
> on access()/NFSv4.1 ACCESS to do the right thing, without having
> to inspect permission bits.

BTW: is anyone capturing this for the (hopefully forthcoming)
clarification/bugfix of the v4.0 spec? AFAIK, this is an issue with
ramifications that go all the way back to NFSv2...

Cheers
  Trond

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