Re: [uml-devel] hostfs as root

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "stian" == stian  <stian@nixia.no> writes:
    stian> The problem occurs when you create a file you are later not
    stian> allowed to 
    stian> open if I'm seeing this right, so, the best fix would be not to
    stian> close the 
    stian> file when we create them in the first place. Fix the behavour that
    stian> we

  I believe that we do this because in TT mode at least, we may have to open
it in multiple processes.

  So the fix would work for SKAS, but not TT mode.

    stian> The mode issue goes pretty much away, since trying to open a file
    stian> you are  not allowed to read will normally fail both in host and
    stian> uml. Only problem is when creating new files as far as I can see.

  Root can open a file for write that doesn't have write permissions.

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