From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 2 23:09:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20666 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 23:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA20654 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 23:09:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 19508 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Jul 1998 06:09:38 +0000 (GMT) To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permission confusion at mount points In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 19:21:25 -0500" References: <199807030021.TAA18905@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 08:09:38 +0200 Message-ID: <19506.899446178@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Should the mount point really influence permissions this way w/o > > giving any indication of this? Or is this behavior unintentional? > > Is it worth a PR? > > Its that way in every Unix I've used. Can't think of one that it doesn't > act up, but somebody would point out the odd system if I was to claim > more than I know and say *all* unices. Yes, I've seen this trip the unwary on many different Unix systems. I've never seen a reason for *why* it has to be this way. Can anybody enlighten us why? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message