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Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l"
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Daniel Richard G. |
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Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l" |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Nov 2006 00:51:10 -0500 |
On Wed, 2006 Nov 01 20:58:21 +0000, James Youngman wrote:
>
> If we see a DT_UNKNOWN before anything else in a directory, we
> wouldn't know whether to assume it's a directory or not, unless we had
> previously seen a DT_DIR for "." or "..".
I take it there's a good reason for not using scandir(), with a custom sort
function... always forcing "."/".." to the top seems like it would make
life easier.
> >If not, it might be sufficient to check if the directory's canonical
> >path is under /afs. (You're never going to have AFS mounted on e.g. /usr
> >or /mnt/afs.)
>
> It's not always possible to figure out the canonical path (for example
> if a parent of the start point has no execute permission).
AFS in many respects disregards the Unix mode bits, giving primacy to ACLs.
If you could enumerate the ways in which a canonical path might not be
obtainable, I can test to see if any of them apply to AFS.
--Daniel
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- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", James Youngman, 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", James Youngman, 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", Daniel Richard G., 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", James Youngman, 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", Daniel Richard G., 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", James Youngman, 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", Daniel Richard G., 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", James Youngman, 2006/11/01
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l",
Daniel Richard G. <=
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", James Youngman, 2006/11/03
- Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l", Daniel Richard G., 2006/11/03