From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 15 10:30:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA23170 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:30:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [139.23.36.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA23165 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (mail.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22929 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:30:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22460 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:30:08 +0100 (CET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA00693 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:30:07 +0100 (MET) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199711151830.TAA21413@intern> Subject: Re: How useful is this patch? In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "Nov 9, 97 05:23:10 pm" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:30:00 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > of course, > but who said that you have to enable it in you HOME directory? > We want to do this in users 'dropbox' directories > which is not the same as their ho,e directories. > without it there is a never-ending set of complaints about > permissions, and the admin spends a lot of time removing files for users. > As is indicated.. this is implemented as a mount option (default off) > and the directory in question must have the bit set.. > it isn't likely to happen by accident. > We can keep it as a WHISTLE-ONLY mod here, but I thought > I'd see if anyone else wants it.. > I'd rather have it in the general sources than proprietary, > but That's a decision that's beyond me to make.. > (i.e. yours). Count me on side of people who want it :-) I have got to deal with the problem a long time now and I am really tired of it... However, best would be to see it in 2.2.5... -Andre