Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux nfs client problem | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 30 Nov 1999 21:50:06 +0100 |
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>>>>> " " == Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> writes:
>> > then this will fail on more than one NFS implementation. >> Said nfs CLIENT implementations are broken. By design, the >> UNIX file system checks file access permissions with OPEN, not >> WRITE.
> NFS is not posix compliant.
For the record: NFSv3 does in fact fix this. It implements an access()-style call that is supposed to be used to check access on open.
>> In order to implement this over NFS, client WRITE operations >> must use the credentials from OPEN not not the credentials the >> process has at the time of WRITE.
> That would be a good idea. Its certainly on the list of things > wrong with the old NFS client code. I'm not sure what the > status on this is.
It's on its way. I'd still like to finish cleaning up the RPC call interface.
Cheers, Trond
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