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Date:      Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:58:25 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 146774 for review
Message-ID:  <4899CA21.8000307@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200808061413.m76EDIfR043441@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200808061413.m76EDIfR043441@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=146774
> 
> Change 146774 by trasz@trasz_traszkan on 2008/08/06 14:12:37
> 
> 	Ignore "append" permission - use "write_data" instead - on regular
> 	files to match SunOS (and ZFS) behaviour.

I always thought the reason for a separate  "append"
bit was to protect files such as log files by allowing
them to be appended but not overwritten.

Maybe Sun is wrong here?
Does the NFS4 spec say anything about this?

Tim



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