Re: metas Permission Denied

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Chris Mason wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 12:22, Nikita Danilov wrote:
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>>Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
>> > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:59:22 +0400, Nikita Danilov said:
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>> > > chmod u+rx backup/fsplit.c
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>> > > "x" bit is necessary for lookups, and "r" bit---for readdir.
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>> > This is going to be *such* a non-starter - there's many decades of
>> > "C files are mode 644 and executables are 755" tradition that this
>> > will fly against.  What this basically implies is that the 'execute'
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>>Eh? What I described is precisely decades old meaning of rwx bits for
>>directories.
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>>Problem is that we have to fit objects that are both regular files and
>>directories into access control scheme that wasn't designed for such a
>>mix. I don't see better solution short of inventing new bit(s).
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>Please forgive me for jumping into the end of a thread without reading
>the whole thing, but it seems like the r bit should be sufficient here. 
>If you can read the file, you should be able to read the metas.
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>x should be for execution of the file...
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>-chris
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what if the file/directory contains "real" files which are not metas, 
and it also has a file body?  This is possible in reiser4.