[OpenAFS] unix permissions and MacOS X

[Matthew N. Andrews]

Thanks,

    I'll give this a try.
hmmm... now where to find a MacOSX dev machine. :-)

-Matthew Andrews

Alexei Kosut wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:42:11PM -0500, Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:
> > Do you mean in the finder, from the shell, or something else? There is a
> > known problem with the finder (and other Carbon applications) that apple
> > has been informed of on multiple occasions but have not yet fixed. The
> > finder does makes it's own access control decisions (because it wants to
> > anyway so it can give non-writable files and directories different icons).
> > Unfortunately, it does it the wrong and fast way, using stat(2), rather
> > than access(2).
>
> In my experience, it affects Cocoa applications also (mainly in the
> Open and Save dialogs).  The solution I've settled on, until Apple
> fixes this, is to have OpenAFS report fake mode bits so that Mac OS X
> doesn't get a chance to try and enforce them.  It means that programs
> that care about the exact mode of a file will get the wrong
> information, but so far this hasn't turned out to be an issue.
>
> The patch I'm using (against OpenAFS 1.2.3) is here:
> <http://www.stanford.edu/~akosut/macosx/openafs/permission.patch>
>
> --
> Alexei Kosut <akosut@cs.stanford.edu> <http://www.stanford.edu/~akosut/>
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