On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:01 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Say you want to lookup a path /foo/bar/baz, then the access permission > is based on the following things: > > - the credentials of the user. let's only take traditional uid/gid > for this example although credentials are much more complex these > days > - the kind of operation you want to perform > - the access permission of the actual object the path points to (inode) > - the lookup permission (x bit) for every object on the way to you object - your private namespace particularities (submounts etc) Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
