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From: "Frank Filz" <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
To: "'Bruce Fields'" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: "'Kernel NFS List'" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'Ganesha NFS List'" <nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: RE: pynfs updates
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 14:21:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009a01cebed2$fcdacb50$f69061f0$@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131001142601.GG26382@fieldses.org>

> > > 		- SECNN4: is env.home necessarily unequal to "/"?  Would
> > > 		  seem better to do the lookup in a subdirectory just to
> > > 		  be certain.
> >
> > Env.home is the directory you specify on the command line, I think the
> > presumption is that it is a writeable file system. Pynfs creates tmp
> > and tree directories in home (and maybe some files also?). Guess if /
> > was writeable, you could specify /, so yea, maybe it should go into tmp.
> 
> Sounds good.

env.home does actually include traversing into tmp, so I will leave this
test alone.

> > A better test might actually be to do LOOKUP down to home and even
> > into tmp, looking for a junction, and then do the
> > SECINFO_NO_NAME(parent) on the directory handle just across the
> junction if one was found.
> 
> Yeah it'd be nice to check that cross-filesystem case but I don't think
it's
> necessary (and you still have to deal with the case where a mountpoint's
not
> found).
> 
> If tests at mountpoints were useful perhaps we could pass in a mountpoint
> on the commandline.  Or add some sort of export-configuration interface to
> the serverhelper script and let pynfs setup exports itself.

Yea, that might be something interesting to explore at some point.

Frank


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-01 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-30 18:17 pynfs updates Frank Filz
2013-09-30 22:11 ` Bruce Fields
2013-09-30 23:54   ` Frank Filz
2013-10-01 14:26     ` 'Bruce Fields'
2013-10-01 14:30       ` 'Bruce Fields'
2013-10-01 15:42         ` Frank Filz
2013-10-01 19:05         ` Frank Filz
2013-10-02 11:36           ` 'Bruce Fields'
2013-10-02 15:58             ` Frank Filz
2013-10-01 18:21       ` Frank Filz [this message]
2013-10-01 18:45         ` 'Bruce Fields'

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