From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [4/5] Add option for hardlinkable cache of extracted blobs Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:24:22 -0700 Organization: SGI Message-ID: <20050417182422.06dd7379.pj@sgi.com> References: <20050417195935.GI1461@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pasky@ucw.cz, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 03:22:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNKxf-0004ro-GH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 03:22:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261494AbVDRBZu (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:25:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261522AbVDRBZu (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:25:50 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:32935 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261494AbVDRBZq (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:25:46 -0400 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by omx2.sgi.com (8.12.11/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id j3I34mL2030872; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:04:58 -0700 Received: from vpn2 (mtv-vpn-hw-pj-2.corp.sgi.com [134.15.25.219]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id j3I1ORlU15538783; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:24:29 -0700 (PDT) To: Daniel Barkalow In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org > So it shouldn't complain about a filename which you're allowed to try to > stat, even if there's nothing there. I'm not sure what 'nothing there' means to you. To me, it means 'no file there', so no you would not be allowed to stat it - and should fail ENOENT. > And it would depend on the privs of > the wrong user in looking at the path. Yup. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401