On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:38:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > The node doesn't "belong to the user"; the filesystem does not know or > care what access permissions are there in the upper-level filesystem. > It is in *that* filesystem which the user is marked the owner; not in > the running trivfs filesystem. > > So you need to ask the upper level filesystem for it: since you are the > owner of the upper-level node, you can call file_getcontrol on the > upper-level node.
I understand the point. But calling file_getcontrol() on the upper-level node won't allow us to update the options of the trivfs translator AIUI. Isn't there a way to do that without being root ? -- Richard Braun
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