RE: NFSv4: Identifying users & groups (Fwd)

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From: Boris Z. (boris@conley.com)
Date: 08/20/98-05:08:12 PM Z


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From: "Boris Z." <boris@conley.com>
Subject: RE: NFSv4: Identifying users & groups (Fwd)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:08:12 -0700



On Thursday, August 20, 1998 9:51 AM, Mike Eisler [SMTP:mre@eng.Sun.COM] wrote:
> 
> > Particularly, I think that after introduction of ACCESS we can remove notion
> > of a group  from the protocol semantics of file attributes (even in Unix
> > world that was unbalanced -  user could belong to many groups, but file
> > could not). From other point I'd like to find  a place for following NT
> > attributes: HIDDEN, SYSTEM, ARCHIVE, TEMPORARY, COMPRESSED. 
> > Unix servers may set all of them to 0 and Unix clients may ignore them if
> > they wish.
> 
> Why should the protocol make minor concessions to one operating system platform
> and not another?
> 

We should not. 
I just want to expand protocol semantics to accommodate other than UNIX FS.


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