Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:18:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: A few FS notions
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> > That would depend on the target file system. In case of FAT, you have no 
> > choice - just the R/O bit...
> 
> He means to ask which system is the "visible" one, i.e. show Unix-like
> permissions all the time and make them up when the FS doesn't have them
> (like DJGPP "ls" does for example), or show FAT-like R/O based on the
> current user for FS supporting permissions...
> 
> I vote for showing Unix-like permissions and faking them with weak
> filesystems.
I vote in favor, too. But there;s no need to fake'em - provided that we
implement the "resource" extensions. One of the resources would be an extended
attributes doubleword to store all possible attributes.