From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wedgwood Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:58:45 -0700 Message-ID: <20040902205845.GA7541@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <1094079071.1343.25.camel@krustophenia.net> <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1535878866.20040902214144@tnonline.net> <20040902194909.GA8653@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1094155277.11364.92.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040902204351.GE8653@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <1094158060.1347.16.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040902204949.GA7449@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1094158626.1347.28.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094158626.1347.28.camel@krustophenia.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lee Revell Cc: Pavel Machek , Spam , Horst von Brand , Jamie Lokier , David Masover , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:57:06PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > How are permissions handled? If root lists the contents of a tar > file that is world readable, then joeuser comes along and does the > same, can joeuser sees the cached listing? everyone has their own cache i guess, works well enough elsewhere also, am i the only person scared by the code complexity when it comes to root and setuid code here? sounds like a disaster waiting to happen