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Date:      Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:45:58 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        lioux@gns.com.br (Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/4195
Message-ID:  <19970802184558.LF51493@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199708021523.MAA13366@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br>; from Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira on Aug 2, 1997 12:23:43 -0300
References:  <199708021523.MAA13366@srv1-bsb.gns.com.br>

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As Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:

> > Your submission must have lost its attachments.  I assume the code
> > diff that fixes this problem was in the mail attachments?  Please
> > resend.

> 	I was just following up Jordan's email. I guess either he
> knows the fixup or he knows the person who does.

Your guesses seem incorrect.  I'm pretty sure Jordan doesn't have a
fix in his pocket (or he probably would have applied it already).

> 	I haven't looked the code that does this particular trick (control the
> mounting points permissions).

Do it, please.  You can argue whatever you want, as long as nobody's
really going to investigate the `why' and the fix for this phenomenon,
it won't stand the chance of being fixed anytime at all.

Unlike what you believe, there has never been a `political' decision
that this problem need not to be fixed.  It's only that most people
probably deem it minor enough to not waste their time into looking
after it at all.  Almost all Unices have the same behaviour, so as a
system administrator, you are well-advised to make all your
mointpoints 0755 or 0555 anyway.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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