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From: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
Subject: Re: "Metas"
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 01:44:42 -0400
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>>>>> "David" == David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> writes:

[...]

David> Another idea which seems to work much better is to merely have
David> two modes for each file -- one for the file-as-a-file and one for
David> the file-as-a-directory.  ...

This makes a lot of sense to me.  I like it.  I think that it's
reasonable to say that the desired permissions for a file as a file may
not necessarily be the same as the desired permissions for a file as a
directory.

I wonder if this would require more or less changes to the VFS compared
to creating a new permission for chdir.

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