Re: [RFC PATCH] CIFS posix acl permission checking
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:44:42 +0200 Stef Bon <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/3/12 Jeff Layton <[email protected]>: > > > > CIFS is already a god-awful mess when it comes to handling permissions. > > There are a ton of options that affect how it deals with permissions. > > Many of them conflict and the effect of their union is poorly > > understood. It's a maintenance and support *nightmare*. Adding this > > means adding more options and yet another set of behavior, and that > > worries me. > > > > I do not know how difficult it is to maintain, but sometimes it's a > good idea to rewrite code. > Maybe you already have thought about that, but is it an (again a) option? > > Stef > What are you proposing to rewrite? -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]>