Re: V4 status

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

David Masover wrote:

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> The only thing I might complain about is that, although it was listed 
> as a possibility to display file permissions as files within a file 
> (for example, I should be able to do 'touch file; ls file'), I have 
> had two problems there.  First, ls seems to know it's a file, and so I 
> can't see any files within it.  Second, it needs the executable bit, 
> or I get permission denied errors when trying to look at any files 
> inside it.  Third, even with ls not working, no guesses I've made on 
> potential filenames has worked.

Nikita will comment on the state of this code, and your remarks below.

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> I know almost nothing about the interface behind this.  That said, 
> here's what I'd suggest (without knowing any better):
> - - If I look at something without using a trailing slash, it should 
> be treated as a file, except maybe for compatibility reasons.
> - - If I do use a trailing slash, or as a parent directory to 
> anything, it should be treated as a directory.
> - - If it is a regular file (and not a directory pretending to be a 
> file through some odd plugin -- /etc/passwd could be a file 
> constructed from files in /etc/passwd/) then permission to view it as 
> a directory should be assumed for anyone with read access.  As an 
> alternative, the ability to change into a directory could be 
> implemented as another security attribute, which is automatically 
> linked to executable permission for "normal" directories.
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Hans