[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [AFS3-std] Re: "l" permissions are not actually weaker than we're telling people

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:42:30 -0500


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com> wrote:
>
> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> writes:
>> if there is somewhere we advertise that the permissions on a file are
>> the intersection of the permissions granted by the ACLs on all
>> directories above it in the volume, we should fix that. I am aware of
>> no such claim being made. A reference to such would be appreciated.
>
> Oh, not in general, but just for the "l" bit -- I got that impression in
> the CMU beat-andrew-into-the-dumb-undergrads'-head-course (I forget the
> real name).

CSW. Where they no longer even acknowledge that AFS exists as far as I know.