Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:01:49 -0500 | | From | Eric Van Hensbergen <> | | Subject | Re: FUSE merging? |
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On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: > > While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to > > its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this > > sort of mapping? > > Sshfs handles it by not handling it. In this case it is neither > possible, nor needed to be able to correctly map the id space. > > Yes, it may confuse the user. It may even confuse the kernel for > sticky directories(*). But basically it just works, and is very > simple. >
In principal, Plan 9 file servers handle permission checking server-side, so we could likewise punt -- but it seemed a good idea to have some form of mapping for directory listings (and things like sticky directories) to make sense.
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