From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible permissions bug on NFSv3 kernel client
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:49:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BJISs-0000MM-W0@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1QnPD-2pg-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:50:06 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:
>> ...so that the the MODIFY and EXTEND bits aren't set when writing to a
>> block or character device.
>
> Hmm... Why shouldn't the MODIFY bit at least be set if the user
> requested write access to the device?
It's somewhat of a mixed-up situation for device nodes exported via
NFSv3. Permission bits are on the server, but the actual write does
not happen via NFS (as v3 WRITE only works on regular files).
--
Ciao,
Pascal
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-29 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1QnPD-2pg-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-29 20:49 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-04-29 21:17 ` Possible permissions bug on NFSv3 kernel client Trond Myklebust
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[not found] ` <1Qrhg-5hH-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-30 20:17 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-04-30 20:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-01 10:54 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-05-04 9:55 ` Colin Paton
2004-05-04 13:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-29 11:02 Colin Paton
2004-04-29 17:39 ` Trond Myklebust
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