From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: badly authored udf file systems Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:03:08 +0000 Message-ID: <20041202100308.GA14567@mail.shareable.org> References: <1101957150.5405.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Filesystem Development Return-path: Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:22156 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261584AbULBKD1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:03:27 -0500 To: Shaya Potter Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1101957150.5405.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Shaya Potter wrote: > in looking at the ecma spec > (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-167.htm) > and section 4/14.9 where the file entry record is discussed, it shows > that the permission scheme sort of mirrors unix (i.e. owner, group, > other and read/write/execute bits). However, the spec is ambigious > because when it refers to the execute bit, it doesn't talk about > directories at all. In normal unix, of course one needs the execute bit > set, however, its probable other systems dont have such a semantic and > hence buggy dvd authoring programs on those platforms don't check for > it. > > Would it be useful to have a file system option to specify something > along the lines "buggy_dvd" which automatically gives all directories a > 0x111 bump? If the spec doesn't talk about directory execute permissions at all, and it looks like that is intended, then shouldn't the 0x111 bump be done all the time for UDF? More exactly, adding execute permissions corresponding to whichever read permissions are set. -- Jamie