On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Chris Dillon wrote: > I'm probably being extremely naive myself, but I just envisioned a > scenario like this (pardon me if someone else has already suggested > this): > > When a filesystem is mounted as foreign (HOW that is determined I > won't talk about), every file in the filesytem has its credentials > mapped to that of the mountpoint. File mode bits are not remapped in > any way. New files gain the credentials of their _foreign_ parent. > > That's the skinny. Now I'll give a (much longer) example to clarify.
Sounds fine, except I'd have the owner & group passed in in the initial mount, rather than taken from "the mount point". :-) Take care, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
