On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote:
> On Mon Mar 22 16:22:15 EDT 2010, n...@lsub.org wrote: > > It would help being able to "append" to a directory, i.e., being able to > > create new files but not to, say, remove, already created files. > > i considered modifying the fileserver to do something similar > for nupas. perhaps reusing the 'a' bit. but in the end, i didn't > do it as we weren't having a problem. i use the mode 773 for > mailboxes which can be delivered to by other users and 700 > for mailboxes which can't be delivered to by other users. denying > read access at least makes it annoying to guess all the mail files > in the mbox. > > (thanks to anthony for a recent fix to splitmbox.) > > russ had a specific objection to "append" directories. i don't > recall how the argument went. > Is it because you can bind in new stuff to a directory if you need it? > > - erik > >
