Re: VFS + path walktrough

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You're right. It doesn't sound too good, although it all depends 
> on the how permission checking is done.  If it's done in the server, 
> then neither the mode nor the ownership is needed for lookup. 

It really should be done in the server. But this adds another
issue (no idea if the current 9p driver already handles this):
We need one link for each user accessing the filesystem.


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