From: Boris Z. (boris@conley.com)
Date: 08/20/98-05:08:12 PM Z
Message-ID: <01BDCC4C.5A37F780.boris@conley.com> 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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